La palabra del día: "la tela"
la tela ( teh'-lah )
(noun) cloth, fabric
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Examples:
1. Mañana tenemos cita para escoger la tela para las cortinas.
We have an appointment tomorrow to choose the fabric for the curtains.
2. La tela del vestido de la actriz costó miles de dólares.
The fabric for the actress's gown cost thousands of dollars.
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Los pañales de tela son mucho mejores para el medio ambiente.
Cloth diapers are much better for the environment.
En los trópicos, yo sólo uso un pequeño trozo de tela para cubrir mi cuerpo en el sol.
In the tropics I only use a small piece of cloth to cover my body in the sun.
Penelope la esposa de Ulises trabajó por veinte años en la tela de su ropa de boda vestido de novia mientras que estaba esperando esperaba su returno el regresso de él.
Penelope, Ulysses' wife, worked on the cloth for her wedding dress for twenty years while she was waiting his return.
Yo estaba totalmente equivocado: De veras en el cuento Odisea Penelope estaba tejiendo un sudario para cuando falleciera el padre de Ulise, Laertes. Necesito leer Odisea. ¡Me desculpen todos, por favor!
I was completely mistaken: In reality in the story "The Odyssey", Penelope was weaving a shroud for when the father of Ulysses would die. I need to read "The Odyssey". Please forgive me everyone!
Las velas son hechas con tela de dacrón.
Sails are made with dacron cloth.
Recuerdo en los años ochentas que mi hermana y yo acompañabamos a mi mama todos los viernes a la tienda de telas y ella se quedaba viendo los catálogos de los patrones para hacer ropa por horas. Mi hermana y yo nos aburríamos mucho. Yo creo que por eso no me gusta la costura.
I remember that back in the 80's, every Friday, my sister and I would go to the fabric store with my mother. She would browse through the sewing pattern catalogs for hours. I think that is why I don't like sewing at all. Those were some of the most boring times of my life. 
Please make any corrections.
Normalmente prefiero ponerme telas naturales, pero actualmente algunas de las telas sintéticas son muy buenas.
Usually I prefer to wear natural fabrics, but these days some of the synthetics fabrics are very good.
El algodón es la tela de nuestras vidas.
Cotton is the fabric of our lives.
En las calles de Marruecos hay muchas tiendas donde puedes comprar telas muy coloridas.
In the streets of Morocco there are a lot of shops where you can buy very colorful fabrics.
Requiere mucha tela para envolver cubrir un edificio.
It takes a lot of cloth to wrap a building.
¡A ella le encanta visitar la tienda de telas.
She loves to visit the fabric store.
Istanbul, Turkey
Cloth es la palabra más general para traducir tela.
In English fabric is also used but must not be confused with fábrica.
En Inglés fabric se utiliza también, pero no debe confundirse con la fábrica.
Cloth es la palabra en inglés más común para traducir 'tela'.
'Fabric' también se utiliza pero no se debe confudir con 'fábrica'.
A cloth factory - Una fábrica de telas
There are many beautiful fabrics in quilts.
Hay muchas telas bonitas en los edredones.
Hay una maestra de español que vive en Alabama que tiene miedo a la tela terciopelo.
