Editing Diapering (section)

== Textiles ==
[[Diaper (cloth)|Diaper]] in textiles refers to richly decorated fabrics with a small geometrical or floral pattern that consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced. The term was initially associated with [[silk]] with diamond patterns later applied to [[linen]] and [[cotton]] fabrics of similar designs.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Montgomery|first=Florence M.|url=https://archive.org/details/textilesinameric00mont|title=Textiles in America 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth|date=1984|publisher=New York; London : Norton|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-393-01703-8|pages=218}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume VIII Slice IV - Diameter to Dinarchus.|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32607/32607-h/32607-h.htm|access-date=2021-05-31|website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>
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File:Britannica Diaper.jpg|A diaper weave, that is a weave creating a diamond pattern in the cloth. Such cloth is quite absorbent and was therefore used for babies' [[nappies]], also called [[diaper]]s
File:Woolen diamond twill.jpg|A similar weave, also called a diamond [[twill]]
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