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Revise your vocab with this crossword

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Across:

1. A basic structure in which a warp yarn passes over 4 weft yarns and leaves one.
5. A synthetic, fine and soft fabric that simulates wool aspect.
6. A synthetic polymer claimed to have a less natural feel when compared to similar fabrics made from natural fibers such as cotton.
9. A soft, staple and natural fiber that grows around the seeds of a plant and which is the most widely used.
11. The three basic types the weft threads can go under and over the warp threads in order to make a fabric.
12. A long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles.
13. The fibre derived from the fur some of animals principally sheep.

Down:

2. A type of fabric woven with a pattern of diagonal lines, where two warp threads cross one weft thread.
3. A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn.
4. A natural protein fibre from cocoons made by a specific caterpillar that refracts incoming light.
6. The most basic type of textile weaves where the warp and weft are aligned so that they form a simple criss-cross pattern.
7. A class of materials that are continuous filaments.
8. The set of lengthwise yarns through which we start weaving.
10. A generic synthetic polymer of silky material of strong, light, elastic and non-absorbent fibres.
11. The yarn which is drawn under and over parallel warp yarns to create a fabric.