fabric ribbon

A pointe shoe employs two fabric ribbons and an elastic band to secure it to the foot.

Letters from lesser lights were written on manual machines, nicely arranged and error-free, but distinguishable by the grainy impressions of a fabric ribbon.

The RPG-43 (developed in late 1943) was a modified RPG-40 with a cone liner and a large number of fabric ribbons for flight stabilization after release.

Later models of IBM Executives and Selectrics replaced inked fabric ribbons with "carbon film" ribbons that had a dry black or colored powder on a clear plastic tape.

In the context of printers, the term mainly refers to low-resolution impact printers, with a column of 8, 9 or 24 "pins" hitting an ink-impregnated fabric ribbon, like a typewriter ribbon, onto the paper.