Knitted fabrics are made from a single yarn or a set of yarns. In making cloth, a knitting machine forms loops in the yarn and links them to one another by means of needles. The finished fabric consists of crosswise rows of loops, called  courses, and lengthwise rows of loops, called...

  Woven fabrics are made up of two sets of yarns; a lengthwise set called the warp and a crosswise set called the filling or weft. The warp yarns are threaded into a loom through a series of frames called harnesses. During the cloth-making process, the harnesses raise some warp yarns and lower...

A textile is a cloth, which is either woven by hand or machine. Textile has traditionally meant a woven fabric. The term comes from the Latin word texere, meaning to weave. Fibers are teh raw materials for all fabrics. Some fibers occur in nature as fine strands that can be twisted into yarns....