ABSTRACT
The word textile (from the Latin texere, 'to weave') originally meant a fabric made from woven fibres. Today the term signifies any of a vast number of fabrics produced by weaving, knitting, felting, and other techniques such ikat technique. The term ikat itself literally means 'to bind'. This is a technique of ornamenting a fabric. Thin fibres are wound around a thread before weaving, to protect these bound parts from absorbing the dye into which the threads are dipped.
