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 * **Calico** Calico is a type of fabric made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. Also referred to a type of Printing.
 * **Cambric** Cambric is a lightweight cotton cloth used as fabric for lace and needlework.
 * **Camel's Hair** Camel's Hair is a natural fiber from the camel. Camel hair can produce a variety of different coarseness of yarn. This fiber is a novelty fiber spun by hand-spinners.
 * **Canvas** Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used on fashion handbags.
 * **Canvas work** Canvas work is embroidery on canvas.
 * **Carding** Carding is the processing of brushing raw or washed fibers to prepare them as textiles.
 * **Carpet** A carpet' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering.
 * **Cashmere** Cashmere is wool from the Cashmere goat.
 * **Cellulose** Cellulose; this fiber processed to make cellophane and rayon, and more recently Modal, a textile derived from beechwood cellulose.
 * **Cheesecloth** Cheesecloth is a loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
 * **Chiffon** Chiffon is a sheer fabric made of silk or rayon.
 * **Chino cloth** Chino cloth is a kind of twill fabric, usually made primarily from cotton.
 * **Chintz** Chintz is calico cloth printed with flowers and other devices in different colors. It was originally of Eastern manufacture.
 * **Coir** Coir is a coarse fibre extracted from the fibrous outer shell of a coconut.
 * **Colorfast** A term used to describe whether the colors bleed or not in washing.
 * **Cord** Cord is twisted fibre, usually intermediate between rope and string. It is also used as a shortened form of corduroy.
 * **Corduroy** Corduroy is a durable cloth.
 * **Cotton** Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile.
 * **Crepe** Crepe is a silk fabric of a gauzy texture, having a peculiar crisp or crimpy appearance.
 * **Crazy quilt** Crazy quilting is often used to refer to the textile art of patchwork and is sometimes used interchangeably with that term.
 * **Crinoline** Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830.
 * **Cross-stitch** Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches are used to form a picture.
 * **Crochet** The word crochet describes the process of creating fabric from a length of cord, yarn, or thread with a hooked tool.
 * **Crochet hook** A crochet hook is a type of needle, usually with a hook at one end, used to draw thread through knotted loops.
 * **Cro-hook** The cro-hook is a special double-ended crochet hook used to make double-sided crochet. Because the hook has two ends, two colours of thread can be handled at once and freely interchanged.

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