Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers:
— The fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent.

synonyms: cloth, material, textile.

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^†; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together etc. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement etc. (completion) 729.    flowering, fructification; inflorescence.    bringing forth etc. v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^†; gestation etc. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen etc. 357.    spontaneous generation; archegenesis^†, archebiosis^†; biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^†; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.    biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^†; tocogony^†, vacuolization.    edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.    ... show more

Roget 154: effect, consequence; aftergrowth^†, aftercome^†; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance^†; upshot, issue, denouement; end etc. 67; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.    production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits^†, firstlings; heredity, telegony^†; premices premises^†.    ... show more

Roget 7: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect etc. (appearance) 448, dilemma, pass, predicament.    constitution, habitude, diathesis^†; frame, fabric etc. 329; stamp, set, fit, mold, mould.    mode, modality, schesis^†; form etc. (shape) 240.    tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character.    ... show more

Dutch: vod, kleed, geweven stof, doek, stof, textiel, weefsel
Polish: materiał

The underlying structure:
— It is part of the fabric of society.

synonym: framework.

Roget 329: structure (form) 240, organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass, architecture; stratification, cleavage.    substance, stuff, compages^†, parenchyma [Biol.]; constitution, staple, organism.    [Science of structures] organography^†, osteology, myology, splanchnology^†, neurology, angiography^†, adeology^†; angiography^†, adenography^†.    texture, surface texture; intertexture^†, contexture^†; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap etc. (roughness) 256; flatness (smoothness) 255; fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.    silk, satin; muslin, burlap.    [Science of textures] histology.    ... show more