noun
- A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
- The texture or quality of such cloth.
- A complex underlying structure.
We have been using fabrics of various kinds since before recorded history. Protection from the elements is certainly the prime purpose, but protection from hard, and or sharp objects falls into that too.
At this juncture I will have my attention more on fabrics relative to protection from the elements.
