texture

Where it comes from

Texture ordinarily means the way a surface or material feels or appears to feel. Texture came from Latin textura, a weaving, construction, or structure, formed from texere, to weave, join, or build. Early English uses concerned a woven fabric or the arrangement and structure of connected parts, including anatomy. Because a fabric's character comes from how its threads are joined, texture widened to the structure and quality of other materials, then especially to how a surface looks or feels.

How the meaning developed

The same weaving family also produced text, understood as words woven together.

In use

Texture is the way a surface or fabric feels.
The word began with the way threads are joined into a structure.