VOILE, a term applied to a distinctive type of fabrics corn prising a variety of different textures produced from wool, cot ton and silk, and possessing the same general features. It is char acterized by a light, open and net-like structure based essentially on the principle of the plain calico weave, and produced from warp and weft yarns with an abnormal degree of twist, irrespec tive of the class of material from which it is spun. The yarn em
ployed may be either single or folded in the warp series or in the weft series, or in both series of threads; and it may be spun with a greater or lesser amount of twist. (See also Voile under COTTON: Varieties of Cotton Fabrics.)