| BROCADE | One of the textiles woven on a Jacquard loom often with gold or silver threads (7) |
| MEDLEYS | Fights or scuffles originally, later miscellanies or mixtures; musical potpourris; textiles woven from yarns of varying colours; or, races involving multiple swimming styles (7) |
| DAMASK | Originally hand-woven and traded on the Silk Road, a sumptuous brocadelike textile created on a Jacquard loom since its advent in 1804 (6) |
| SAMITE | Opulent, heavy silk fabric woven in Medieval Europe, often with gold, silver or multicoloured embroidery (6) |
| CLOTH | General word any of the textiles once subject to sumptuary laws (5) |
| HALIFAX | Town in West Yorkshire; a centre of the textile industry from the 15th Century (7) |
| LUDDITE | Any of the textile workers in England opposed to mechanisation who organised machine-breaking in the early 19th century (7) |
| VELVET | An originally imported silk fabric, sometimes with gold or silver threads; or, one of the nicknames of the artist Jan Brueghel the Elder (6) |
| SAMITES | Rich silk fabrics with gold and silver threads used for dressmaking in the Middle Ages |
| TISSUE | Word for a rich cloth of gold or silver threads first, later cellular matter of an animal or a vegetable; or, a hankie (6) |
| UNITE | "Oneness" in the form of an association of workers; a coupling for pipes; an esemplastic device on an ensign, flag or jack; a students' club; a textile woven from a combination or fusion of fibres; or |
| LAME | What kind of fabric is interwoven with gold or silver threads? (4) |
| ADA | A forename of Lord Byron's daughter Countess of Lovelace, who said that the analytical engine "weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" (3) |
| ORRIS | ____ lace was woven with gold or silver threads |
| ZARI | Gold or silver thread used for the embroidery on tussar silk sarees (4) |
| TWILL | A type of textile woven with a pattern of diagonal ribs or ridges (5) |
| SILK | With a rustling sound described as "frou-frou", textile woven or made in the process of sericulture in places including Karnataka in India, Suzhou in China and Sudbury in England (4) |
| REVOLUTION | Mechanisation of the textile industries marked the beginning of the Industrial ... |
| LODZ | Major city of central Poland, a centre of the textile industry (4) |
| LINEN | Used by the ancient Egyptians to wrap Tutankhamun's mummy and by Matilda as the ground fabric for the Bayeux Tapestry, a textile woven from flax (5) |
