#fabric

• Damask — A fine, heavy, and high-quality fabric, traditionally made of silk, wool, linen, or cotton, characterized by complex decorative geometric or floral patterns achieved by alternating matte and glossy surfaces. This luxury textile has its historical origins in the Middle East and is predominantly used for making upholstery, elegant draperies, or ceremonial table linens.
• Adesgo — The name of a historic trademark and an iconic textile factory in Romania, founded in 1926 in Bucharest by a foreign entrepreneur and structurally specialized in the production of stockings, fine lingerie, and knitwear. Over the decades, the entity became the largest manufacturer of its kind on the national market, recognized for the quality of its textiles and advanced weaving technologies applied in industrial processes.
• Commercial smokehouse — An industrial section, specialized factory, or large-scale commercial unit where the technological process of mass smoking and preservation of food products (meats, fish, cheeses) takes place. Unlike a classic smokehouse, a commercial smokehouse features modern automated equipment for rigorous control of smoke density, temperature, and structural humidity.
• Hung — Being in a suspended state, caught or fixed onto a nail, hook, or another support to hang down; a textile fabric or object accidentally caught on a sharp element, showing pulled threads or tears; in a colloquial or slang sense, it describes a person who has been successfully flirted with or hit on, or an item obtained easily or through questionable means.
• Alaja — A fine oriental cotton or silk fabric, usually adorned with bright colored stripes, historically imported from the Ottoman Empire and used in the medieval Romanian Principalities for tailoring boyar garments, luxury caftans, or decorative curtains; by extension, the clothing made from this precious material. This term reflects the intense commercial structures and cultural exchanges between the Balkan and Eastern-Oriental spaces, being frequently recorded in dowry sheets and merchant goods ledgers of the 17th to 19th centuries.
• Bleachery — A section, workshop, or industrial facility within a textile or paper factory, specialized in the chemical bleaching and cleaning of yarns, raw fabrics, or cellulose pulp.
• Alcantara — A registered trademark of composite synthetic microfiber textile material (polyester and polyurethane), renowned for its appearance and texture resembling suede leather. It is widely utilized in premium automotive upholstery, fashion apparel, interior furniture, and tech accessories due to its durability, wear resistance, and superior grip. Historically and geographically, the term also refers to a famous Roman bridge and municipality in the Cáceres province, Spain, derived from the Arabic 'al-qanṭarah' (the bridge).
• Aleșd — A town in Bihor County, located in western Romania, on the Crișul Repede River, at the contact zone of the Plopiș Mountains and the Vad-Borod Depression. The locality is an important road hub on the DN1 (E60) route and a regional economic center historically recognized for its construction materials industry, limestone quarrying, and cement manufacturing.
• Packer — A laborer or industrial operator whose primary task consists of packing, wrapping, labeling, or placing goods, products, or parcels into boxes, containers, or other protective coverings in factories or logistics warehouses to prepare them for transport or sale.
• Bottling — The act of bottling and its result; the industrial or technological process of pouring, storing, and sealing liquids or gases (wine, water, juices, fuels) into bottles, flasks, or special vials. This final step in the manufacturing line is fully automated to ensure hygiene standards, precise volumetric control, and optimal preservation of the packaged product's properties.
• Starch — To treat a fabric, a piece of clothing, or a textile material with an aqueous solution of starch, with the structural purpose of giving it stiffness, a smooth appearance, gloss, and an increased resistance to wrinkling and soiling during use. This technical or domestic process also facilitates the ironing of materials and protects the textile fibers by creating a microscopic protective film on their surface.
• Starching — The act of starching and its result; a technological process of finishing textile materials by impregnating them with a starch paste or suspension, followed by drying and calendering. This structural operation improves the physical-mechanical properties of the fabrics, increasing their apparent density, resistance to frictional wear, and their ability to repel dust particles suspended in the air.
• Starched — Having undergone the process of starching; a textile material, garment, or collar structurally impregnated with a starch suspension to ensure controlled stiffness, a smooth surface, and a flawless drape. In a broad sense, it describes a modified physical state of natural polymeric fibers that have acquired a protective film against wrinkling and frictional degradation.
• Starch factory — An industrial unit, factory, or specialized department where the technological process of extracting, purifying, and processing starch from various vegetable raw materials, such as potatoes, corn, wheat, or rice, takes place. This production facility includes complex installations for washing, grinding, centrifugal separation, and drying of polysaccharide macromolecules destined for the commercial market.
• Moire — A popular phonetic variant or archaic alteration of the noun 'moar' (moire - a fine silk or wool fabric pressed into wavy patterns that reflect light like water ripples). The term is sporadically found in old merchant inventories or period texts, describing luxury textile materials used for making boyar garments.
• Traditional cloth strip — A rare regional or archaic term designating a long strip of cloth, a traditional towel, a head wrapping, or a headscarf used in folk costumes within specific ethnographic areas. In a contextual or derived sense within local dialects, the word can also refer to a narrow band of material used as a structural element for hemming, reinforcing, or binding the edges of household textile items.
• Traditional cloth strips — The plural form of the regional noun 'anasână'; long strips of cloth, traditional towels, head wrappings, or headscarves used in folk costumes within specific ethnographic areas. In the context of old household crafts, the term defines those bands or pieces of textile material used structurally in the home for hemming, reinforcing, or decorating the edges of larger fabrics.
• Traditional cloth strip — A singular regional form, encountered in certain dialects in the north of the Romanian space, for the noun 'anasână'; a long strip of white cloth, a traditional homemade towel, a decorative head wrapping, or a headscarf worn by women as part of the folk costume. In the context of household crafts, the piece served as a structural or functional element used in the home for hemming, reinforcing, or tightly binding the edges of larger fabrics.
• Traditional cloth strips — The plural form of the regional noun 'anasin' (or a variant for 'anasâni'); long strips of cloth, traditional towels, or textile bindings utilized in peasant households or as part of the folk costume. In the context of old textile processing, the word designates those pieces of material used as structural elements for binding or marginal decoration on traditional clothing items.
• Antonio — A type of fine fabric, textile material, or elegant clothing design pattern used in the garment industry; it also represents the unadapted graphical variant (specific to Italian and Spanish languages) of the masculine given name Anton, derived from the Latin 'Antonius'. In the Romanian commercial context, the term describes either a range of textile materials with a silky finish or a foreign anthroponym used as a brand or proper name in modern documents.