fabric

Fabric was borrowed from French fabrique, which came from Latin fabrica, meaning a workshop, art, trade, or product of art, itself from faber, meaning artisan or workman.

The Latin fabrica already covered both a place of making and the thing made there, and English fabric kept that dual sense of structure or product before narrowing toward woven cloth.

Fabric is a doublet of fabrica, also borrowed straight from Latin, and it's related to forge, which came into English through Old French from the same root.