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  • East Friesian

    East Friesian wool is a fiber obtained from the East Friesian sheep breed, originating in northwestern Germany and considered one of the oldest and...

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  • kevlar

    Kevlar is one of the most well-known and successful synthetic materials in the textile industry, revolutionizing the production of protective...

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  • Lamb wool

    Lamb’s wool is an exclusive natural textile material obtained from the first shearing of lambs at around 6–12 months of age, which gives it...

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  • Leather

    Leather is a natural material composed of flexible and durable collagen tissue obtained from the skins of domestic and wild animals (most commonly...

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  • Glove cotton thread

    The thread factory was established in 1902. It was founded by Viennese entrepreneurs who managed to gain important partners from the COATS family,...

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  • Willow wicker

    Willow wicker is a natural, flexible, and pliable material obtained from thin, long shoots of various willow species, primarily basket willow (Salix...

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  • Grass

    Grass is a natural, rapidly renewable material whose use in the textile sector has a long, millennia-old tradition. Archaeological and ethnographic...

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  • Hazel strips

    Hazel strips (lieskové lúby) are a natural plant-based material obtained by peeling long, straight shoots from the common hazel (Corylus avellana)....

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  • Tencel

    The development of Tencel was driven by environmental concerns, as researchers sought a way to produce rayon in a less harmful manner than the...

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  • Metal threads

    Metal threads were used in Slovakia within folk art, especially for decorating traditional folk costumes (kroje), but also other garments and...

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  • Industrial lace

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  • Goat hair fabric

    Goat hair is a natural textile material obtained from the fleece of various goat breeds, most notably Angora goats (mohair), Cashmere goats...

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  • Elastic 100% linen fabric

    Elastic 100% linen fabric is a unique natural textile material made exclusively from fibers of flax (Linum usitatissimum), where elasticity is...

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  • Hemp wood

    Hemp hurd, correctly called shives, is the inner woody part of the stalk of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Its processing history dates back to...

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  • Hemp woven composite

    A woven hemp composite is a modern ecological material formed by combining woven hemp fabric (made from long natural bast fibers) with a polymer or...

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  • Hemp nonwoven composite

    A nonwoven hemp composite is a modern ecological material created by combining disintegrated hemp biomass (mainly fibers and sometimes hurd) with...

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  • Flax woven composite

    A woven flax composite is an innovative material that combines woven flax fabric with a polymer or natural matrix, most commonly bio-based or epoxy...

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  • Nylon

    Nylon is a trade name for a group of synthetic polyamide fibers, first developed in the laboratories of the DuPont company in 1935 under the...

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  • Flax nonwoven composite

    A nonwoven flax composite is an eco-friendly material created by combining disintegrated flax biomass (short fibers, waste fractions, or secondary...

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  • Bio-nylon

    Amni Soul Eco® is the world’s first polyamide yarn with additives designed to accelerate its decomposition in landfills. It has been further...

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  • Flax seed

    Flaxseed is the small seed of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum), best known today as a source of oil and valuable nutrients. Historically,...

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  • Keper

    A type of weave based on the alternation of groups of warp and weft threads in such a way that the warp threads form diagonal ribs or geometric...

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  • Banana fabric from chenille yarn

    Banana fabric made from chenille yarn is a natural material produced from fibers obtained from banana plant pseudostems, which are then processed...

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  • Cotton-linen yarn

    Cotton–linen yarn is a blended textile yarn produced by combining fibers of cotton (Gossypium) and flax (Linum usitatissimum), typically in ratios...

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  • Činovať

    A term used for fabrics with a weave other than plain weave or for textiles decorated with patterning techniques. In some regions (e.g. Liptov), it...

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  • Cotton-linen priast

    “Priast” is the result of manual or machine spinning of textile fibers (such as cotton, flax, or wool) into a yarn or thread suitable for weaving,...

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  • Jute yarn

    Jute yarn is a textile material produced from the fibers of the jute plant (Corchorus olitorius, Corchorus capsularis), one of the world’s most...

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  • Fake angora

    Fake angora is a textile material that imitates the properties of real angora fiber (from the Angora rabbit), but it is mainly made from cheaper raw...

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  • Jute fabric

    Jute fabric is a natural textile material woven from the fibers of the jute plant (Corchorus olitorius, C. capsularis), also known as “golden fiber”...

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  • Silon®

    Silon is a trade name for a type of synthetic polyamide fiber (polyamide 6, polycaprolactam) that was produced in Czechoslovakia from the 1950s as...

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  • Jute hessian

    Jute hessian (also known as burlap) is a coarse, loosely woven textile made from fibers of the jute plant (Corchorus olitorius, Corchorus...

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  • Chemlon®

    Chemlon is a trade name for a synthetic polyamide fiber produced in Czechoslovakia, mainly in the Chemlon Humenné plant, starting in the 1950s. The...

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  • Paper yarn

    Paper yarn is a special textile material made by twisting narrow strips of paper, typically produced from plant-based fibers such as abaca, hemp,...

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  • Dederon®

    Dederon is a trade name for a synthetic fiber made of 100% polyamide (most commonly polyamide 6), which began to be produced in East Germany (GDR)...

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  • Pearl yarn

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  • Perlon®

    Perlon is a trade name for a synthetic polyamide fiber (polyamide 6), developed in Germany in 1937–1938 by chemist Paul Schlack as a response to...

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  • Knitted yarn

    It is a structured type of yarn in which, instead of twisting multiple strands together in a conventional spin, the fibers are formed through a...

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  • Tesil®

    Tesil is a trade name for a textile material created by combining cotton (or other plant-based fibers) with synthetic polyamide fibers such as...

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  • Polyester yarn

    Polyester yarn is a synthetic textile material produced by spinning the polymer polyethylene terephthalate (PET), most commonly derived from...

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  • Diolen®

    Diolen is a trade name for a synthetic fiber made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which belongs to the polyester fiber group. It was...

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  • Dogbane rope

    Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), also known as “Indian hemp,” is a fibrous plant native to North America that has been used for thousands of years in...

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  • Terilen®

    Terylene (also spelled terilene; known in the Anglo-Saxon world as Terylene) is a trade name for a synthetic polyester fiber based on polyethylene...

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  • Industrial knitted fabric

    Industrial knitted fabric is a flat textile material produced by interlooping yarns into a series of connected loops using knitting machines, with...

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  • Lavsan®

    Lavsan is a trade name for a synthetic polyester fiber—polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—known in the USSR from the late 1940s as an Eastern European...

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  • Reed

    Reed (Phragmites australis) is an aquatic plant widely found in wetlands and along the banks of lakes and rivers. Historically, it has been an...

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  • Yak fiber

    Yak fiber (Bos grunniens) is a rare natural animal-based textile material obtained from the hair of the Himalayan yak, with the highest-quality...

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  • Wool-flax composite

    Wool–flax composite is a modern nonwoven material created by combining animal (sheep wool) and plant (flax) fibres in an unspun, non-interwoven...

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  • Wool-linen blended fabric

    Wool–linen blended fabric is a textile material created by combining animal fibres (sheep’s wool) and plant fibres (flax) in proportions that...

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  • Jacquard fabric

    Jacquard fabric is a type of luxurious woven textile produced on a special loom equipped with a Jacquard mechanism, which enables the creation of...

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  • Urtica Girardinia

    Girardinia (Himalayan nettle, Girardinia diversifolia) is a plant-based material—specifically a bast-fibre nettle native mainly to the Himalayas and...

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This phase of the project Library of Local Textile Materials was supported by the Slovak Arts Council.

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