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Tabi
Tabi (足袋) are Japanese split-toe socks worn with geta and zori sandals; jikatabi are their rubber-soled work-shoe descendants, and Margiela's 1988 Tabi shoe adapted the form for fashion.
Tablet weaving
Tablet weaving, also called card weaving, is a narrow-band warp-twining technique using rotated perforated tablets; earliest finds are sixth-century BCE Hallstatt, with Oseberg loom remains (834 CE) and living traditions in Arabia and Nepal.
Taffeta
Taffeta (taffata, taffety) is a crisp, lustrous plain-weave fabric with a fine crosswise rib, originally silk, now also acetate, rayon, nylon, or polyester; the name comes from Persian taftah, and the weave itself is called taffeta or plain weave.
Tailcoat
Tailcoat (tail coat, swallow-tail coat): a man's coat cut away at the front with knee-length tails, descended from the 18th-century riding coat. Evening form defines white tie; daytime form is the morning coat.
Talavera de la Reina
Talavera de la Reina is a city in western Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, on the Tagus river, famed for its 16th-century tin-glazed ceramics, inscribed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019.
Talavera pottery
Talavera Poblana is a tin-glazed earthenware tradition from Puebla, Mexico, dating to the sixteenth century and recognized for its blue-and-white palette, named after Talavera de la Reina, Spain.
Talim (weaving notation)
Talim is a symbolic notation used by South Asian handloom weavers, above all in Kashmir, to record the color sequence and knot counts of a textile.
Talita von Fürstenberg
Princess Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg, granddaughter of designer Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon, is an American designer. Named DVF muse in 2018, launched TVF for DVF in 2019, co-chairwoman of DVF since October 2021.
Tallit (טַלִּית)
Tallit (טַלִּית), plural tallitot, is the Jewish four-cornered prayer shawl with tzitzit fringes worn mainly at morning services; Ashkenazi versions have black stripes, Sephardi ones are white, and its blue stripes inspired the flag of Israel.
Tam o' shanter (cap)
Tam o' shanter (also ToS, tammie): soft Scottish woollen bonnet with flat circular crown and toorie, named after Burns's 1790 poem hero, word attested 1839; worn by ploughmen, adopted for women c. 1887, and adopted by the British Army in 1915.
Tamara Ecclestone
Tamara Jane Ecclestone, British model, socialite, and TV personality born 1984 in Milan, eldest daughter of F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone and model Slavica Radić; founder of SHOW Beauty and Fifi & Friends, sister of Petra.
Tameka Foster
Tameka Foster Raymond (born 1971, Oakland, California) is an American celebrity stylist, designer, and author who styled Usher, Lauryn Hill, and Jay-Z, was Usher's wife from 2007 to 2009, and founded Kile's World Foundation.
Tammy Lynn Leppert
Tammy Lynn Leppert (born 1965) was an American model, beauty queen, and actress from Rockledge, Florida, who appeared in Scarface and Spring Break and vanished July 6, 1983, near Cocoa Beach; her disappearance remains an open unsolved case.
Tan France
Tan France (born Tanweer Safdar) is an English-American fashion designer, television personality, and author from Doncaster, England, known as the fashion expert on Netflix's Queer Eye reboot.
Tang sancai
Tang sancai (唐三彩) is the polychrome lead-glazed pottery of China's Tang dynasty (618–907), made chiefly as burial goods and known for its yellow, green, and white glazes.
Tang Ying
Tang Ying (唐英, 1682–1756) was a Qing-dynasty porcelain official and ceramic artist who ran the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen for nearly three decades under the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.
Tango chirimen
Tango chirimen (丹後縮緬) is a high-grade white silk crepe produced in the Tango region of northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, since the Kyoho era of the 1720s, and used mainly as ground cloth for yuzen kimono dyeing.
Tanit Phoenix
Tanit Phoenix (Tanit Jacqueline Phoenix), South African model, actress, and makeup artist born 1980 in Durban, known for the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Death Race 2 and Inferno, Femme Fatales host Lilith, and Hardcore Henry makeup work.
Tapa cloth
Tapa cloth, also called barkcloth, siapo, ngatu, masi, or kapa, is a Pacific non-woven textile made by beating paper mulberry inner bark; used for clothing, ceremony, and gifts, with production continuing in Tonga, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Tapestry
Tapestry: handwoven weft-faced textile with discontinuous colored wefts concealing the warp; also called ke-si in China. Distinguished from embroidery such as the Bayeux Tapestry; great European period 14th-18th centuries.
Tapout (clothing brand)
TapouT, an American MMA clothing brand founded in 1997 by Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr., Dan "Punkass" Caldwell, and Tim "Skyskrape" Katz, grew into the leading MMA apparel maker before Authentic Brands Group acquired it in 2010 and WWE joined a 50/50 fitness rebranding joint venture in 2015.
Taqiyah (طاقية) (cap)
Taqiyah (طاقية), also tagiyah or araqchin, is the short rounded skullcap worn by Muslim men, related to the kufi and topi. Worn for prayer and as a base under turbans or the Gulf ghutra; regional forms include the Omani kumah and Central Asian doppa.
Taquile textiles
Taquile textiles are the handwoven and knitted cloth of Taquile Island, a Quechua community on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, recognized by UNESCO in 2005 and 2008.
Target Australia
Target Australia: Australian department store chain founded 1926 in Geelong as a drapery store, renamed Target Australia Pty Ltd in 1973, owned by Wesfarmers' Kmart Group since 2007, unrelated to US Target Corporation.
Target Canada
Target Canada was Target Corporation's Canadian retail subsidiary, launched in 2013 on 220 Zellers leases bought for $1.8 billion, reaching 133 stores before a 2015 CCAA wind-down costing about $7 billion.
Tarpaulin
Tarpaulin: a water-resistant covering sheet, historically tar-treated canvas (word c. 1600, from tar + palling), now PE or PVC-coated polyester; uses, materials, UV degradation, and recycling.
Tartan
Tartan: Scottish woven pattern of interlocking warp and weft stripes, each design a sett; earliest Scottish example the 3rd-century Falkirk sett; clan tartans are a 19th-century development, now recorded in the Scottish Register of Tartans.
Tassel
Tassel: a hanging ornament of bundled threads or cords bound at one end, related to fringe and passementerie; used on curtains, cushions, fezzes, and academic caps; typically 3-12 cm, 20-80+ tassels per meter in trim.
Tatara iron smelting
Tatara iron smelting (たたら製鉄, tatara seitetsu) is a traditional Japanese method that smelts iron sand with charcoal in a low clay furnace, yielding tamahagane steel for Japanese swords.
Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz (1966–2023), Hamburg-born, Swedish-raised supermodel and actress; original 1990s supermodel, Lindbergh's January 1990 British Vogue cover, "Freedom! '90" video, died of metastatic breast cancer.