| bagasse | sugar cane or sugar beet refuse; a paper made from bagasse. note "bagassinosis". | |
| filasse | any of various non-cotton vegetable fibers, processed for the making of yarn. | |
| S-twist / Z-twist | terms describing the handedness of a yarn's twist, a vertical yarn's strands' slant following the stroke of the descriptive letter. | |
| linsey-woolsey | a fabric of linen and wool; an incongrous mixture. | |
| grandrelle | a yarn whose two plies are of contrasting colors. | |
| noil | a short fiber of a textile, separated from the long by combing. | |
| ixtle | a fiber from agave, yucca, etc. | |
| poil | a silken yarn or thread used for velvet and ribbon, and as the core of metallic yarn. | |
| thrum | the unused ends of a loom's warp threads, left when the web is cut off; any short piece of yarn, thread, or rope. |