Ribbed fabrics are any fabrics with a ribbed surface, especially corduroy. These fabrics are highly popular and can be sold at a variety of different stores including fabric organisations, John Lewis, Debenhams, Fabric-dreams.
Poplin and corduroy have ribbed surfaces.
Fabrics that have a ribbed surface are: Poplin and corduroy.
A ribbed fabric is a fabric with intervening raised lines or ribs. Ribbed fabrics may come in a variety of compositions including cotton, wool and silk.
Faille
A barathea is a soft fabric made from various combinations of wool, silk and cotton, with a lightly-ribbed surface.
Needlecord
A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface., Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.
A twill jersey is a type of sports uniform that is made of twill. Twill is a woven fabric with a ribbed pattern that is diagonal and parallel.
A fabric sample is called a "swatch".
A roll of fabric is called a
Clue: When he wore the outdated corduroys, he was… Answer: "RIBBED" (robin, dirty, boiled, fabric)
In Spanish, "cordova" could refer to a person from Cรณrdoba, Spain, or it could be a type of fabric with a ribbed finish.
You may be referring to "Moiré" a name given to a number of fabrics (often silk but other materials are also made into moiré). The technique is achieved either by altering the tension on the warp and weft as the fabric is woven or by the true method "calendering" which puts the folded fabric through a series of ribbed rollers.Note that wetting the fabric may remove the wavy effect!