textiles -which is its own industry. My response is: the housing industry isn’t called the wood industry, even though wood is used in many hous…e fashion, not the textiles, which is used as well as other non-textile materials, such as leather. It is so wrong that the clothing industry (high fashion or cheap) was ever called textiles -which is its own industry. My response is: the housing industry isn’t called the wood industry, even though wood is used in many houses.