| WEAVING | Making fabric or basketry |
| CRAFT | Ceramics or basketry |
| LOOM | An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread (4) |
| LOOMS | Machines for making fabric by weaving yarn or threads (5) |
| TWILL | Top tailor intent on making fabric (5) |
| SATIN | Was an observer making fabric? (5) |
| LINEN | Brief note with direction for making fabric |
| LISLE | Pedestrianised city making fabric |
| TARPAULIN | Sailor finds letter-writer at home making fabric (9) |
| RAMIE | Fibre used in making fabrics |
| CHENILLE | A thick, soft, tufty silk or worsted velvet cord or yarn, used in embroidery, or to make fabric or trimmings (8) |
| CLOTH | Another word for a textile, fabric or material used in tailoring, dressmaking or upholstery; or, a covering for a table (5) |
| BIAS | Prejudice; diagonal line or cut across the grain of a fabric; or, a bulge or weight on the side of a bowl (4) |
| SHOT | Collective pellets or charge in a cartridge or shell; colour-changing silk fabric; or, the casting of a net (4) |
| STRETCH | A continuous period of time or expanse of land/water; an exaggeration of the truth; or, elasticity in a fabric or garment (7) |
| MUSLIN | Fine cotton cloth with a number of culinary uses; a dressmaker's pattern or toile of said fabric or of calico; or, nautical slang for sails/canvas (6) |
| LACE | A delicate filigree-like fabric; or, a fine cord or ribbon, such as St Audrey's tawdry necklet, synonymous with cheap, gaudy or vulgar finery (4) |
| PLEATS | Word for folds or gathers sewn or pressed into fabric or drapery (6) |
| HANDLE | A haft, hilt or other manually gripped manubrium; the feel or tactile quality of fabric; or, one's nickname (6) |
| BATISTE | Fine fabric or linen, cotton or wool (7) |
