[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][dt_banner target_blank=”false” bg_color=”#000000″ bg_opacity=”50″ text_color=”#000000″ text_size=”normal” border_width=”3″ outer_padding=”10″ inner_padding=”10″ min_height=”150″ animation=”none”]The millennia old textile technology has seen an unexpected revival in the last decades, due to the improvements in manufacturing machines, the development of new fibres and  the demands from yet unexplored application domains. Composites, being reinforced with such new fibres like carbon and glass, have been posing interesting challenges to the existing textile technologies. In this lecture, first the manufacturing methods and geometrical and mechanical characteristics of textiles will be presented, classified according to their dimensionality : 1D (fibres and yarns), 2D (planar weaves, knits, braids, non-wovens…) and 3D-weaves, braids and stitched textiles . second, the impact of the textile geometry (or ‘architecture’) on the mechanical properties of the composites reinforced with these textiles will be discussed. Finally, several modelling approaches to simulate these properties will be presented and assessed.[/dt_banner][/vc_column][/vc_row]