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Textile, means 'to weave' and it means woven fabric. When yarn, whether cotton, silk, woollen, rayon, nylon or of any other description made out of any other material is woven into a fabric what comes into being is a 'textile' and is known as such. Whatever be the mode of weaving employed, woven fabric would be 'textile', Ess Dee Carpet Enterprises v. Union of India, 1990 (1) SCC 461.

Textile, would include every kind of cloth, whether made of cotton, wool, jute or silk, natural or artificial, which is a finished product, in accordance with the needs of human beings, who include all classes, who want very fine cloth and those who are satisfied with comparatively coarser kind and who include men and women, and the latter may require beautiful colours and prints, Workers Employed in UB Pvt. Ltd. v. Management of UB Pvt. Ltd., AIR 1960 Mad 131; Parritts and Spencer (Asia) Ltd. v. State of Haryana, 1979 (1) SCC 82.