A textile is any type of cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, or otherwise combining fibers. As an adjective, it describes things related to cloth and fabric production.
From Latin *textilis* 'woven', from *texere* 'to weave'. The same root gives us 'text', originally referring to woven words.
A textile is literally something 'woven', and so is a text. Reading, in a way, is running your eyes over a fabric of words that someone carefully wove together.
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