Technical Textiles

From INDA's Nonwoven Glossary:

Technical textile
A general term used to describe a broad range of textiles that are designed for specific applications. These textiles include nonwovens, wovens, knits and film composites. The types of end-products usually associated with technical textiles are nonwovens and certain woven, knitted and film fabrics used in products, such as protective apparel (hazardous waste, fire, clean room, military, etc.), parachutes, “hi-tech” tenting materials, flags, automotive interior fabrics and housewrap - to name a few.