Fabric
Textile art using wax.
What is batik?
A fastener made from hooks and loops.
What is Velcro?
How loose or fitted a garment will turn out.
What is ease?
A row of stitches on a single piece of fabric to help it keep its shape.
What is stay-stitching?
A place for thread.
What is the eye of the needle?
A plant used in the manufacture of the earliest type of cloth.
What is flax?
Fasteners that are attached to clothing or other items to secure an opening or add embellishment.
What are buttons?
This fitting issue needs extra length at the center back, as well as darts to shape the excess fabric at the neckline.
What is 'rounded back'?
Finishing a seam to hide it.
What is binding?
The front of a fabric.
What is Face?
European traders in the 17th century brought these colorful cottons from India and revolutionized Western taste in textiles.
What is calico?
One of the most dreaded sewing tools.
What is a seam ripper?
A group of people in the 1960s that advanced diverse fashion trends.
Who were the Hippies?
Where weft threads loop and become a dense edge.
What is a selvedge edge?
You won’t want to have this for dinner.
What is a Tailor’s ham?
This weave needs a special loom to produce beautiful designs woven into the fabric.
What is Jacquard?
Composed of hooks and eyes and first used as a shoe fastener.
What is a zipper?
A laid-back, comfortable, and rebellious style that originated in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
What is 'Grunge'?
Where weft threads loop and become a dense edge.
What is a selvedge edge?
Not dinner time for your pet.
What is a feed dog?
How a fabric feels against your skin.
What is a fabric's "hand"?
A long, slender tool with a sharp point that's used to manipulate fabric while sewing.
What is a sewing stiletto?
This iconic fashion trend was started by the French in 1890.
What is haute couture?
A sewing idiom used to express the act of suddenly laughing uproariously.
What does, "it had me in stitches" mean?
Don’t pull my leg on this one!
What is a presser foot?