Acetate: Acetate is a man-made fiber composed of acetylated cellulose.
Acrylic: Acrylic is a man-made fiber derived from petrochemical by-products
Basket Weave: Variation of a plain weave in which two or more warp ends interlace with an equal number of weft picks to create a checkered pattern similar to that of a woven basket.
Batik: A hand-printed fabric, originally cotton, created by the laborious process of applying a wax coating to every part of the fabric not to be dyed a certain color, then dipping the fabric into that color dye.  The wax is removed and then reapplied for every other color in the design before dyeing.  Batik printing originated in the Dutch East Indies and is now imitated in screen-printing.
Beaded Trims: Crystal beads are attached to satin ribbons or cotton tape forming a “tassel trim” of beads.
Blendown: A mixture of feather, fiber and down. Pillowy, soft, sink Cushion into.  Allows for very little recovery after compression. 
Bolt: A bolt is an entire length of fabric rolled full-width on a tube.
Border: A border is similar to a gimp, but is wider than a gimp. It is a flat, woven textile made in many styles. One or both edges of the border can be plain, cut, or have scalloped loops. Borders are also sometimes woven in plain patterns such as stripes or chevrons.
Bouclé: Bouclé is a novelty yarn which is looped and crimped to produce a pebbly surface.
Brush Fringe: A brush fringe is a cut fringe that has a flat skirt made of thin yarns. The heading of a brush fringe can vary from plain to elaborate.
Bullion Fringe: A bullion fringe is a fringe made of plain or crepe cords rather than yarns. The heading can range from plain or decorative.
C.O.M.: C.O.M. stands for Customer's Own Material.
Cashmere: Cashmere is a fine fiber obtained from the undercoat of the Himalayan Cashmere goat.
Center Draw: Center draw refers to a pair of curtains that draw open and closed at a window’s center point.
Center Support: A center support is a metal bracket used to support a traverse rod from above. It prevents the rod from sagging in the middle but does not interfere with rod operation.
Chenille: Chenille is a special yarn with pile protruding on all sides that is produced by first weaving a fabric—usually with cotton or linen warp and silk, wool, rayon, or cotton weft. The warps are taped in groups of four and the wefts are beaten in very closely. After weaving, the fabric is cut lengthwise between each of these groups of warp yarns, each cutting producing continuous chenille which is then twisted. The word “chenille” means “caterpillar” in French.
Chiffon: Chiffon is a plain woven, soft, sheer fabric often made of silk or rayon yarns.
Chintz: Chintz is a cotton fabric, with or without a printed pattern, that has a glaze created by applying resin and calendaring.
Collage: Collage is a term used to describe the style of a product in which more than two different fabrics are being used.
Cord: A cord is plied yarn (plies) that has been twisted together. When used for a seam, a tape is sewn onto the edge of the cord. Cords are frequently used in place of fabric welts.
Corduroy: Corduroy is cut pile fabric, usually made of cotton, in which the ribbed pile is produced Cotton: Cotton is a natural, cellulosic seed hair fiber obtained from the seedpod of the cotton plant.
Crewel: Crewel is a hand embroidery technique from Kashmir in which fine, loosely twisted two-ply yarn is chain-stitched on cotton cloth. Imperfections, color variations, irregularities, natural black specks, dye marks, and dirt spots are characteristics that label it as genuine. These fabrics are handwoven by natives in India, and the beauty of the cloth is in its natural, homespun appearance.
Crushed Fabrics: Crushed fabrics are those treated with heat, moisture, and pressure in finishing to distort pile formation.
Custom-Made Curtains: Custom-made curtains are draperies made to order in a workroom or decorator shop.
Cut Length: Cut length is the length of fabric after allowances have been made for headings and hems.
Cut Pile: Cut pile is a fabric in which the pile is cut rather than looped, creating a velvet effect.
Cut Width: Cut width is the width of fabric after allowances have been made for headings and hems.
Cut Yardage: Cut yardage is a fabric or trimming ordered to a specific measurement, as opposed to purchasing by the piece or bolt.
Damask: Damask was originally a rich silk fabric with woven floral designs made in China and introduced to Europe through Damascus, from which it derived its name. Typically, damasks are woven with a single beam (warp) with one or two weft colors. Fancy damasks reveal a smooth warp satin in the background with a low lustre reverse satin in the motif. In two color damasks, the colors reverse on both sides. Single damask is made with a five-harness satin weave; the true, or double (or reverse) damask, is woven with an eight-harness satin weave and has a firm hand.
Decorative Rods: Decorative rods are curtain rods used for the purpose of decorating and are meant to be seen.
Decorative Traverse Rod: A decorative, but functioning rod that “carries” the fabric back and forth by means of cords and pulleys. As the cord is pulled; carriers to which the drapery panels are fastened move the panels. A single traverse accommodates one drapery treatment and a double traverse accommodates two traverse tracks. A dual track with one traverse and one rear plain rod for stationary panels is also an option. Systems can be center draw meaning the treatment opens and closes in the center or one-way draw meaning the entire treatment pulls and stacks to a side. 
Denim: Denim is a yarn-dyed cotton cloth woven in a warp-faced twill, usually with a dyed warp and a natural weft
Doupione: Doupione is an irregular slub silk reeled from double cocoons or silk worms which have spun their cocoons side by side causing an interlock, making it necessary to reel them together. Antique taffetas and sheers are woven with doupioni weft yarn, as are many damasks.
Duck: Duck is a broad term for a wide range of plain weave fabrics. Duck is usually made of cotton, although sometimes linen is used. The terms “canvas” and “duck” are often interchangeable, but canvas is often used to refer to heavier constructions. The term duck had its origins before the mid-19th century when all canvas for sails was imported. The light flax sail fabrics imported mostly from England and Scotland bore the trademark stencil of a raven, while the weights bore the trademark of a duck. The word duck became associated with a heavy fabric and was applied to cotton canvas when it was first manufactured in the U.S.
Egyptian Cotton: Egyptian cotton is a fine, lustrous, long-staple cotton that produces a soft, high-quality fabric.
Embossing: Embossing is a calendaring process which produces a raised design or pattern in relief. The design is pressed into fabric or leather by passing it through hot, engraved rollers. Velvet or plush is embossed by shearing the pile to different levels or by pressing parts flat.
Face Fabric: Face fabric is the primary fabric of a product; on curtain panels, it is the fabric which faces the interior of the room.
Facing: Facing is a strip of fabric over the main fabric that hides raw fabric edges and unlined curtains.
Faille: Lightweight fabric, originally silk, with a small horizontal rib. The ribbed effect is finer than grosgrain.  Faille (pronounced “file”) is the base fabric for moiré. 
Felt: Felt is a fabric made from fibers not taken to yarn form but instead enmeshed by heat, moisture, and agitation. Felt can also be a fabric made by shrinking and agitating woven or knit cloth to obtain superior density, resilience, and strength.
Filament: Filament is a continuous strand of silk or man-made fiber.
Filling (Weft): Filling or weft is an element carried horizontally through the open shed of the vertical warp in a woven fabric.
Finial: A finial is a decorative end piece on curtain rods or traverse rods. A finial is also called a pole end.
Flame-Resistant Fabric: Flame-resistant fabric is fabric with a fiber content or topical finish that makes it difficult to ignite and slow to burn.
Flame-Retardant Fabric: Flame-retardant fabric is man-made fabric with a fiber content that is made or treated to resist burning, and that passes most fire code requirements.
Flame Stitch: A type of Bargello motif in which zigzag or flames are created based on a 17th century needlepoint design of Hungarian origin.
Flange: A flange is a decorative finish on a fabric, and is sewn into a seam. To avoid having the flange droop, a pellon may be inserted to stabilize the flange.
Flannel: Flannel is a woolen fabric with a surface that is slightly napped in finish.
Flax: Bast fiber is extracted from the flax plant's stem by retting to produce linen. Linen fiber is often mistaken for flax, particularly in blends.
Fringe: Fringe is a decorative edging with hanging tassels or threads
Gimp: A gimp is a flat, narrow, woven textile made in many styles. One or both edges of a gimp can be plain, cut, or have scalloped loops.
Gingham: Gingham is a yarn-dyed, combed, or carded cotton fabric woven into a series of simple patterns (such as checks, stripes, or plaids) in two or more colors.
Heat Transfer Printing: Heat transfer printing is a method that transfers designs from rolls of paper to polyester or other thermoplastic fibers. Designs are preprinted with disperse dyes on paper, and under high temperature are transferred onto fabric when both are passed through a heat transfer printing machine. Disperse dyes are the only dyes that can sublimate and, therefore, are the only dyes that can be used. This printing process is an adaptation of the decalcomania method.
Herringbone: Herringbone is a twill weave that reverses direction across a fabric to form a chevron design.
Holdback: A holdback is a decorative piece of hardware that holds curtains to each side of the window.
Ikat: A fabric woven with tie-dyed yarns.  It creates a feathery pattern that provides an ethnic flair to the fabric.  (Pronounced “eye-cot”.)
Inserts: The pillow form inserted into a decorative pillow cover.  Inserts can be either polyester or a feather/down mix.
Iridescent: Iridescent refers to a color effect created by weaving warp ends of one color and a weft of another color. A taffeta weave results in the best iridescent effects.
Jacquard: Jacquard is a system of weaving which, because of a pattern-making mechanism of great versatility, permits the production of woven designs of considerable size. The Jacquard loom, a derivation of the old drawboy hand loom, was credited to Joseph Marie Jacquard in France in the early 19th century. On the Jacquard loom, because threads are handled individually, anywhere from 100 to 15,000 threads may have independent weave action, allowing for complicated curvilinear designs. Jacquard-woven fabrics—particularly sheets—have a warm, silky finish.
Jute: Jute is a bast fiber obtained from the round pod jute or the long pod jute of the family Tiliaceae. It is grown extensively in Pakistan and India, and is mainly found in the Bengal district of Pakistan.
Kick Pleat: A kick pleat (or inverted pleat) is a reversed box pleat that causes a fabric's fullness to turn inward. This type of pleat is commonly used on the corners of a bed skirt to hide the bed frame legs.
Knife Edge: A knife edge is a seam without a decorative finish.
Knife Pleats: Knife pleats are narrow, finely pressed and closely spaced curtain pleats that all face the same direction.
Lace: Lace is an openwork fabric produced by a network of threads that are twisted together and sometimes knotted to form patterns. Lace is made by hand with needles or hooks, or by machinery.
Lampas: A compound woven cloth with figured patterns, bulkier than a true brocaded cloth because all the additional wefts needed for the design are woven into the back of the fabric and carried from selvedge to selvedge.
Leno Weave: Weaving technique where pairs of warp ends twist back and forth between each fill yarn. 
Loop Fringe: A loop fringe is similar to a brush fringe except that the yarns at the base of the skirt are looped, not cut. The bottom edge of a loop fringe can be straight or scalloped.
Loop and Brush Fringe: A loop and brush fringe is a combination of loop and cut brush fringe styles in the same trimming.
Matelasse: Matelasse is a woven fabric similar to a brocatelle. It has two warps that, in weaving, achieve a puckered or quilted effect. In French, “matelasser” means “to quilt” or “to pad”.
Mock Box: This style of cushion or chair pad has a single welt between the top and bottom. Linen: Linen is a strong, lustrous yarn made from flax fiber. Macramé: Macramé is a type of needlework that employs a variety of knots to create an open weave netting.
Mohair: Mohair is long, white, lustrous hair obtained from the Angora goat. Mohair plush is a fabric with a cut pile of mohair yarns that are lustrous and extremely strong, and will hold a permanent embossing.
Moiré: Moiré is a finishing process that produces a wavy or rippled pattern on a fabric, and is unique from fabric to fabric. In French, “moiré” means “watered.”
Natural Fibers: Natural fibers refers to fibers derived from natural substances such as cellulose, proteins, and minerals.
Neckroll Pillow: A pillow in the shape of a small cylinder.  It is usually longer than it is wide.Nylon: Nylon is a generic term for synthetic polyamide fibers.
Olefin: Olefin is a man-made fiber composed of at least 85% (by weight) of ethylene, propylene, or other olefin units.
Organza: Organza is a thin, transparent silk, rayon, or nylon fabric made in a plain weave and given a stiff, wiry finish.
Passementerie: Passementerie refers to the vast range of trimmings and decorative edges.
Pattern Repeat: A pattern repeat is the distance between any given point in a design to where that exact point is repeated again.
Piping: Piping refers to decorative cords used at edges of an item. Piping is usually fabric-covered and is attached to an item by inserting it through a seam.
Piqué: Piqué is a fabric with an embossed appearance created by weaving ribbed, waffle, or honeycomb patterns.
Pleat: A pleat is a fold sewn into place to create fullness in fabric.
Pleat To: Pleat To refers to the finished width of fabric after it has been pleated.
Ply: Ply refers to the number of yarns twisted together to make a composite yarn.
Polyester: Polyester is a generic term for a manufactured fiber in which the fiber-forming substance is a long-chain synthetic polymer composed of a complex ester.
Railroaded: Railroaded refers to a fabric with a pattern that runs horizontally rather than up the roll.
Repeat: Repeat is a term used to describe how often a pattern repeats on a fabric. Rayon
A man-made cellulosic fiber derived from wood pulp.  It is available in all weights and textures.  Because it blends well, dyes easily and is highly absorbent, rayon is a versatile and widely used fiber.
Rings: The most common means of connecting window treatments to rods is rings.  Rings can have an “eye” at the bottom to hold a drapery pin or to sew directly to the fabric, or they can have a clip for grabbing the fabric itself.  Some rings are not complete circles, but form the letter C  (C Rings) for use on one-way draw curtains in bypassing center support brackets. 
Rod: Pole used horizontally to support window treatments indecorative media such as wood/resin, bamboo, brass, iron or aluminum.  An iron rod can be round, telescoped and expandable, turned such as rope twist or even square. Wooden poles can be smooth, carved or fluted in diameters from 7/8-inch up to 3 inches.  The rod selected should enhance the style of the window treatment and coordinate with the rings, brackets and finials. 
Rouching: A section of fabric is gathered into a smaller area, adding texture.  Typically, this is a technique using lightweight fabric on a pillow.
Ruching: Ruching refers to the process by which a fabric is gathered to achieve an elegant effect. Ruching is mostly used in welts or on the face of decorative pillows.
Ruffle: A ruffle is gathered fabric often used in bed skirts and in place of a plain flange on pillows. The fullness of a ruffle is determined by the quantity of fabric used.
Satin: Satin is a fabric with a characteristicly smooth surface and high luster due to the high number of floats on the fabric. Constructed of mercerized cotton, satin is even stronger than plain cotton and has a greater affinity to dyes. Weft or filler satins are usually referred to as sateen.
Sateen: Satin weave used primarily for cotton drapery lining and antique satin.  A sateen is the opposite of a satin weave and has mostly fill yarns on the surface.
Sensuede®: A nonwoven fabric resembling suede that will not shrink, pill, fade, or crock and is very resistant to mildew and stains.
Shantung: Shantung is a lightweight silk cloth woven in a plain weave with doupioni yarn.
Silk: Silk is a natural protein fiber produced from the cocoon of wild or cultivated silkworms.
Sunbrella®: A 100% solution dyed woven acrylic fabric which is fade resistant and resistant to stains and moisture.  This fabric may be used both indoors and outdoors.
Taffeta: A crisp, plain weave fabric.  Silk, cotton, wool and manmade fibers are now used in the production of taffeta fabric though it was originally made of silk.
Tapestry: Heavy, jacquard-woven brocade in which multi-colored warp yarns are used in the warp or weft or both.  Tapestries often depict scenes.
Tartan: Tartan refers to multicolored plaids originally made for kilts worn by Scottish clans.
Tassel: A tassel is a hanging ornament consisting of a head and a skirt of cut yarn, looped yarn, or bullion fringe. Tassels come in all sizes, shapes, and forms.
Tassel Trim: A tassel trim is a plain or decorative gimp with attached tassels.
Ticking: Ticking is a general term for a strong, durable, closely woven fabric in plain, twill, or satin weave, used for covering box springs, mattresses, and pillows.
Toile: Toile is a linen or cotton cloth that is usually made in one color with a printed design that resembles a pen and ink technique. Made famous in Jouy, France in the 18th century when a new technique of engraved plate printing was popularized, toile was known as toile de Jouy. Toiles are printed by various methods, but the most beautiful are still created by engraved plates or rollers. In French, “toile” means “cloth.” Tussah: Tussah is a brownish silk yarn or fabric made from wild silk cocoons of a brown hue. The silkworms that spin these cocoons feed on leaves from various plants and trees such as oak, cherry, and wild mulberry.
Tussah: Tussah is a brownish silk yarn or fabric made from wild silk cocoons of a brown hue. The silkworms that spin these cocoons feed on leaves from various plants and trees such as oak, cherry, and wild mulberry.
Tweed: Tweed is a fabric with a homespun effect created by multi- or monochromatic-colored yarns woven on plain looms. Usually made of wool or worsted, tweed often has a rough texture.
Twill: Twill is a weave that creates a diagonal effect by having the warp float on top of a few weft yarns, or vice versa; generally, three threads up and one down. Antique twill is woven as a twill with a doupioni yarn, having slubs intermittently dispersed across the fabric.
Velour: Velour is a fabric with a pile or napped surface resembling velvet.
Velvet: Velvet is a soft fabric that is either handwoven or machine-made. The machine-made velvet is a double-faced fabric that weaves two fabrics, face to face, joined by the weft yarns. These yarns are then cut automatically which forms the pile on both faces.
Welt: A welt is piping covered with fabric and sewn into the seam of a product. Eastern Accents offers three sizes of piping: small (0.25”), medium (0.5”), and large or jumbo (1.5”). The finished welt size depends on the fabric used.
Yard: A yard is a 36-inch American measurement. The American yard is 1/100,000th of an inch longer than the English yard.
Yarn-Dyeing: Yarn-dyeing refers to fabric made from yarn that has been dyed before weaving.