Classified by Processing Method

- Flat Techniques

    - Brocade Weaving: Utilizes jacquard technology to create exquisite patterns on fabric, often featuring rich colors. It's commonly used for high-end decorations or clothing.

    - Printing and Dyeing: Includes tie-dye, clamp dyeing, batik, etc., producing artistic patterns that are frequently seen in ethnic-style textiles.

- Three-Dimensional Techniques

    - Embroidery: Involves stitching designs onto fabric using needles and threads, resulting in intricate and complex patterns. It's widely used for decorating clothes and home furnishings.

    - Patchwork: Involves adhering or sewing different materials and colors of fabrics together to create layers and visual effects. It's popular in children's wear and quilt art.

    - Quilting: Involves piecing small pieces of fabric together to form a whole design, offering both practicality and cultural significance. It's commonly used in making quilts and cushions.

    - Weaving/Knitting: Uses strips, ropes, belts, and other materials to weave, creating unique textures and shapes. It's often used in making bags, hats, shoes, and other accessories.

 Classified by Garment Manufacturing Process

- Spinning: Involves winding cotton yarns into cones suitable for knitting production, removing yarn defects, and applying wax or oil treatments to improve weaving performance.

- Knitting/Weaving: Uses looms to interlace yarns into fabrics, divided into weft knitting and warp knitting.

- Cutting: Cutting fabrics according to design drawings to produce garment pieces.

- Sewing

    - Hand Sewing: Features fine and smooth stitches, with rich needlework methods. It's often used in high-end craftsmanship.

    - Machine Sewing: Provides neat stitches and high efficiency, including seam joining, overlocking, flat-felled seams, topstitching, and various other methods.

- Finishing: Involves heating and pressing garments to make them smooth and shape three-dimensional forms.

- Special Techniques

    - Silk Organizing: Suitable for lightweight fabrics, used to decorate garment edges, adding aesthetics and detail.

    - Elastic Gathering: Creates pleats or pattern effects by pulling elastic, requiring specialized machines or manual operation.

    - Laser Engraving: Uses lasers to create clear outlines on garment materials.

    - Quilting: Involves crossing cotton or similar materials, sometimes incorporating metal wires or synthetic fibers, to create three-dimensional textile structures.

    - Pleating: Includes knife pleats, piping pleats, sunburst pleats, etc., using pleating machines to press various pleat effects onto fabrics.