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Velvet
A pile fabric with a clipped nap. Before clipping, the nap is a loop as found in frieze or boucle. Velvet was introduced during the Renaissance in Italy and Spain and later moved to France. Designs can be woven into it. They can aiso be made by cutting velvet nap into different lengths or by cutting different lengths over a pattern.
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