Textile Tools
42 blueprints available
Blueprints (42)

Velcro Hook-and-Loop
ni Tex
CRAFT

Boone Ironing Board
ni YourGrandma
CRAFT

Warping a Treadle Loom — Measuring, Beaming, and Threading Warp for Broadcloth
ni Tex
Middle Ages

Burling and Mending Woven Cloth — Cleaning and Repairing Fabric Before Fulling
ni Tex
Cleaning

Pressing Broadcloth in a Screw Press — Hot and Cold Finishing for Lustre
ni Tex
Middle Ages

Raising the Nap and Shearing Woolen Cloth — Teasel Napping and Cropping Shears
ni Tex
Middle Ages

Tentering Cloth on a Frame — Stretching Fulled Wool to Set Width and Grain
ni Tex
Middle Ages

Making a Rawhide Parfleche — Folded Envelope Container from Untanned Hide
ni Tex
Prehistoric

Weaving Reed Sandals — Prehistoric Woven Fibre Footwear
ni Tex
Prehistoric

Making a Stone Spindle Whorl — The Flywheel That Made Thread Possible
ni Tex
Prehistoric

The Air-Jet Loom — Weaving Fabric with Compressed Air at 2,000 Picks Per Minute
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Carbon Fiber — From Polymer Precursor to the Strongest Textile Fiber on Earth
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Electrospinning — Making Nanofibers with Electric Fields
ni Tex
Industry 5.0 — Open Knowledge & AI Collaboration (2026)

Warp Knitting — The Fastest Fabric Formation Technology in Textiles
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Nonwoven Spunbond Fabric — Fiber-to-Fabric in One Step Without Spinning or Weaving
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Lyocell (Tencel) — The Closed-Loop Cellulose Fiber That Replaced Toxic Viscose
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Microfiber — Ultra-Fine Synthetic Fibers That Outperform Natural Textiles
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Dyneema (UHMWPE) — The Lightest Fiber Stronger Than Steel
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

The Rapier Loom — Shuttleless Weaving That Ended 200 Years of Shuttle Technology
ni Tex
Industry 4.0 — Computers & Digital Automation (1960)

Spandex (Lycra) — The Elastic Fiber That Revolutionized Fit
ni Tex
Industry 3.0 — Assembly Line & Mass Production (1913)