Fabric (Hungarian: Gyárváros; German: Fabrikstadt;[4] Serbian: Фабрик, romanized: Fabrik)[5] is one of the oldest historic districts of Timișoara, Romania.
It is located in the central-eastern part of Timișoara, in the vicinity of the Cetate district, being a continuation of the historical city centre.
The most important guilds in Fabric in the 18th and 19th centuries were those of the shoemakers, saddlers, furriers, coopers, boilermakers and fishermen.
The individual trades united to form societies with their own festive days, patron saints and flags.
[8] The waterworks was depicted on the city's coat of arms in 1781 and was built in 1726 by engineer Karl Schindler on the orders of Count Claude Florimond de Mercy.
Agricultural and handicraft tools as well as bells, organs, vinegar, alcohol, soap, towels, silk, gunpowder, bricks, pencils and pasta were manufactured in Fabric in the 18th century.
"new Banat people"), settled in the so-called "New World" (German: Neuen Welt) in 1753, near the present-day East Station.