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Heavy weight

Crash, osnaburg, tweed, burlap

Light weight

Gauze, chiffon, organza, challis

Medium weight

Chambray, chintz, Muslin, percale, gingham

Oldest pile and most expensive

Velvet

Extra yarn weaves

Dotted Swiss, eyelash, swivel dot

Carded is to woolen as combed is to

Worsted

Basket weaves

Monks cloth, hopsacking

Inexpensive yarn produced from extruded polymer films

Tape yarn

Dobby weaves

Plain dobby, birds eye, waffle cloth, Huck a back, madras