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Paisley
A teardrop-shaped, fancy printed pattern, commonly used in dresses, blouses, and men´s ties.

Parachute Cloth
Lightweight, strong, compact fabric used for outerwear, luggage, and parachutes.

Pattern
A design or decoration on woven or printed fabrics.

Peau de Soie
A heavy twill weave drapeable satin fabric, made of silk or a manufactured fiber, and used for bridal gowns and eveningwear. French term for "skin of silk."

Percale
A closely woven spun fabric used for sheeting and dress goods, generally 80 x 80 or more threads per inch.

Permanent Finish
Various chemical and/or mechanical finishings techniques applied to fabrics to achieve specific properties, such as the smoothness of cotton table damask, the glaze of chintz, or the crispness of organdy.

Pile
A term used to refer to the structure of knotted rugs and carpets forming a nap. Cotton, wool, or silk is knotted around the warp in a variety of techniques.

Pill
The small accumulation of fibers on the surface of a fabric.

Plisse
Fabric treated with a solution that shrinks parts of the goods to create a crinkle or pleated effect. Can be used in both home and apparel applications.

Primary Colors
Red, yellow, and blue. With these three colors (and black and white) all other colors are made.

Print
A fabric design achieved by applying dyes or pigments used on engraved rollers, blocks, or screens.

Printing
A process for producing a pattern on yarns, warp, fabric, or carpet by any of a large number of printing methods such as block, blotch, burn-out, direct, discharge, duplex, etching, extract, heat transfer, ink-jet, photographic, pigment, resist, roller, rotary screen, screen, warp, millitron, mitter, stalwart, etc.