• kiaanagriculture
• Last Updated on February 12, 2025

Textiles are fabrics, fibers, cloth or materials used to make fabrics. At first textiles only referred to woven fabrics. The word textile is derived from the Latin term textilis, which means “woven”. Now the word textiles encompasses materials used to make fabrics and fabrics themselves.

Textiles are everywhere in our lives. They are in our clothes, our furniture, our carpets and our bedding. They can be made from natural or synthetic fibers, and they can be woven, knitted, felted or even printed.