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Tatreez (تطريز)
Tatreez (تطريز) is Arabic for embroidery and the traditional Palestinian cross-stitch craft worked on women's thobes, with distinct village motifs and colors; UNESCO inscribed it as intangible cultural heritage in 2021.
Tatting
Tatting (frivolité, occhi, Schiffchenarbeit) is a knotted lace made with a single thread and small shuttle, forming rings, chains and picots via the sliding double stitch; a 19th-century popularized handcraft with ~150 technique variants.
Taxidermy
Taxidermy: preserving and mounting animal skins over mannequins to recreate lifelike animals, used in museum dioramas, research, hunting trophies, and rogue taxidermy art; older mounts often contain arsenic.
Taylor Bagley
Taylor Bagley (Taylor Elise Bagley), American model and actress born 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee. Vogue Italia and Gucci La Passione model; actress in Wish I Was Here and The Shuroo Process; formerly with Elite, Wilhelmina, Ford, and Vision LA.
Taylor Hill (model)
Taylor Marie Hill (born 1996), American model, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2015 after her 2014 runway debut, with 196 recorded shows, Lancôme and Joe's Jeans campaigns, and the Tate & Taylor and Stone Fruit brands.
Tazos
Tazos, also called Pogs, milk caps, or Flippos, are collectible discs from 1990s snack-bag promotions, invented in 1994 at Sabritas in Mexico by Pedro Padierna, played by flipping stacks, and distributed worldwide by PepsiCo brands.
Tchotchke
A tchotchke, also spelled tsatske, is a small, inexpensive trinket, ornament, or souvenir of Yiddish and Slavic origin, first attested in American English in the 1960s.
Te Hau-ki-Turanga
Te Hau-ki-Turanga is a carved Māori meeting house built in the early 1840s near Gisborne, New Zealand, the oldest surviving whare whakairo in the country, now at Te Papa in Wellington.
Ted Baker
Ted Baker: British fashion label founded in Glasgow in 1988 by Ray Kelvin, known as 'No Ordinary Designer Label'. Owned by Authentic Brands Group since 2022 (~£210m); UK retail arm entered administration in 2024; returning via licensed concessions and a 2026 London store.
Teeth blackening
Teeth blackening, Japanese ohaguro (お歯黒) or kanetsuke, is the dyeing of teeth black with iron solution and tannin-rich gallnut powder; a Japanese married-women's custom until the 1870 Meiji ban, it also prevented caries and parallels practices across Southeast Asia.
Tefillin (תפילין)
Tefillin (תפילין), phylacteries: black leather boxes with Torah parchment scrolls worn on head and arm during weekday morning prayers; Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam passage-ordering traditions; earliest examples from the Judean Desert Dead Sea Scrolls.
Temple garment
Temple garment (garment of the holy priesthood): white two-piece underclothing worn day and night by endowed Latter-day Saints, originating in 1840s Nauvoo, symbolizing temple covenants and Christ, with styles updated through 2025 sleeveless releases.
Temple jewellery
Temple jewellery is a South Indian gold jewelry style first made for temple deities, later adopted by Bharatanatyam dancers and brides, with red and green stones set in gold.
Tenmoku
Tenmoku (天目) is the Japanese term for the black-glazed tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony, named after Mount Tianmu in China and called kensan (jianzhan) there.
Terrible Towel
The Terrible Towel is the black-and-gold rally towel of the Pittsburgh Steelers, created by broadcaster Myron Cope in 1975 for a playoff game against the Baltimore Colts; trademarked, with royalties benefiting Merakey Allegheny Valley School.
Terrycloth
Terrycloth (terry cloth, terry towelling) is a cotton pile fabric with uncut loops fed from a second slack warp beam, highly absorbent; standard for towels and robes, distinct from sheared velour and one-sided French terry knit.
Tess Holliday
Tess Holliday (Ryann Maegen Hoven), American plus-size model and body positivity activist from Mississippi; first US size 22, 5'5" model signed by a major agency (MiLK, 2015); founder of #EffYourBeautyStandards.
Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也)
Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese video game character designer and director at Square Enix who designed Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Yuna, and Sora.
Textile
Textile: any flexible material of interlaced natural or artificial fibers, also called cloth or fabric. Spun into yarn, formed by weaving, knitting, braiding, or nonwoven bonding; polyester overtook cotton as the leading fiber in the late 1990s.
Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand
Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand organized garment workers from the 1880s, ending in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, formed in 1992.
Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong
Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong are dominated by the state-run ACFTU on the mainland, while Hong Kong unions have narrowed sharply since the 2020 National Security Law.
Textile and garment unions in Japan and Korea
Textile and garment unions in Japan and South Korea represent spinning, weaving, and apparel workers; Japanese unionism is company-based, while Korean unionism drove the militant democratic labor movement.
Textile design
Textile design creates designs and products for woven, knitted, stitched, printed, or decorative textiles, spanning surface pattern and fabric structure. Key facts: AQA definition, Jacquard punch-card looms, women's entry into design, AI and e-textile frontiers.
Textile documentation and digitization projects
Textile documentation and digitization projects are systematic efforts to record and digitize textile heritage, combining object metadata, technical analysis, and imagery, from EU programs to community projects.
Textile industry
Textile industry: production of yarns and fabrics from natural and synthetic fibers. Also called the 'first industry'; spans spinning, weaving, wet processing, technical textiles; led the Industrial Revolution; employs over 75 million people globally.
Textile industry in Bangladesh
The textile industry in Bangladesh, centered on ready-made garments, is the world's second-largest garment exporter after China, earning about $38 billion and employing roughly 4 million workers, mostly women.
Textile industry in India
The textile industry in India, one of the country's oldest manufacturing sectors, spans fibre to garments, employs over 45 million directly, contributes about 2% of GDP, and is the world's sixth-largest textile exporter with a USD 100 billion export target by 2030.
Textile manufacturing
Textile manufacturing converts raw natural or synthetic fiber into yarn, fabric, and finished goods through spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, and finishing; a major global employer and a source of 5-10% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Textile study collections and swatch libraries
A textile study collection, or swatch library, is an archive of fabric samples and sample books assembled for research, reference, or commercial design use rather than public exhibition.
Thaler
Thaler (taler): large silver coin first minted 1519 at Joachimsthal, Bohemia, from Joachimsthaler; predecessor guldiner 1486. Basis of the Maria Theresa thaler and the dollar.