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Is velvet a fabric or fiber?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Velvet is a fabric. Cotton, wool, and silk are fibers. An easy way to remember is that fabrics are fabricated. Fibers are materials. Fibers and materials are fabricated into fabrics.

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