n.
  - material produced by weaving or knitting textile fibres; cloth.
- a structure or framework, especially the walls, floor, and roof of a building. ▸the essential structure of something abstract: ![]()  the fabric of society. 
Etymology
  C15 (orig. denoting a building or machine, i.e. ‘something made’): from Fr. fabrique, from L. fabrica ‘something skilfully produced’.