artificer, discoverer, inventor - someone who is the first to think of or make something

cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

loom - a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile