Noun

(wikipedia fabric)

(archaic) structure, building

* Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.

(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.

* Milman

Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.

cloth of a beautiful fabric

The framework underlying a structure

the fabric of our lives

the fabric of the universe

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

cotton fabric

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance

The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

Noun

(uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.

(countable) A piece of such material.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=Holland Cotter, title=Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100, work=New York Times citation

, passage=In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.}}

(countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.

* 1980 , David Madsen, Black Plume

Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.