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Velvet
Type of pile fabric / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the fabric. For other uses, see Velvet (disambiguation).
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Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile[1] that gives it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word velvety means "smooth like velvet". Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Today, velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.[2]
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