Plain weave

<h2 id="etymology">Etymology</h2>
<p>According to the 12th-century geographer <a href="/facts/Al-Idrisi/kD6FM1jb">al-Idrīsī</a>, in <a href="/facts/Al-Andalus/JTNmWTzP">Andalusī-era</a> <a href="/facts/Almer%C3%ADa/UXxHg33P">Almería</a>, imitations of Iraqī and Persian silks called «عَتَّابِيِّ» —<i>‘attābī</i>— were manufactured, which David Jacoby identifies<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> as "a <a href="/facts/Taffeta/Po7ILgXK">taffeta</a> fabric made of <a href="/facts/Silk/XhxPpvvS">silk</a> and <a href="/facts/Cotton/efXRcjbn">cotton</a> (natural fibers) originally produced in Attabiya, a district of <a href="/facts/Baghdad/RbtLzzHe">Baghdad</a>." The word was adopted into Medieval Latin as <i>attabi</i>, then French as <i>tabis</i> and English as <i>tabby</i>, as in "tabby weave".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
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<h2 id="end-uses">End uses</h2>
<p>Its uses range from heavy and coarse <a href="/facts/Canvas/ryeLvo7s">canvas</a> and <a href="/facts/Blanket/ykhrQ7Ng">blankets</a> made of thick yarns to the lightest and finest cambries and <a href="/facts/Muslin/xbocPBFX">muslins</a> made in extremely fine yarns.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> Chiffon, organza, percale and taffeta are also plain weave fabrics.
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<h3>Citations</h3>

<h3>Bibliography</h3>
<ul><li>Kadolph, Sara J., ed. (2007). <a href="https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado"><i>Textiles</i></a> (10th ed.). Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-13-118769-6.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Plain weave at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Kadolph (2007), p. 225–229. - Kadolph, Sara J., ed. (2007). Textiles (10th ed.). Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-118769-6. <a href="https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Emery, Irene (1966). The Primary Structures of Fabrics. The George Washington University and Textile Museum Library, Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum. p. 76. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Kadolph (2007), p. 229. - Kadolph, Sara J., ed. (2007). Textiles (10th ed.). Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-118769-6. <a href="https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Kadolph (2007), p. 225–229. - Kadolph, Sara J., ed. (2007). Textiles (10th ed.). Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-118769-6. <a href="https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Jacoby, "Silk Economics and Cross-Cultural Artistic Interaction: Byzantium, the Muslim World, and the Christian West" Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58 (2004:197–240) p. 217, crediting al-Idrīsī. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"'Tabby': The Cat's Out of the Bag". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 11 September 2020. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of-the-word-tabby" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of-the-word-tabby</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Harper, Douglas. "tabby (n.)". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 11 September 2020. <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/tabby" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/word/tabby</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Gillow, John (1999). World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques. Thames & Hudson. p. 70. ISBN 0-500-28247-1. <a href="0-500-28247-1" target="_blank">0-500-28247-1</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Plain weave