CHARMELAINE CLOTH

A dress fabric made from Botany wool warp and weft in a three-shaft twill weave (1 X 2), giving a twill repp effect. Two-fold yarns are used and six shafts as a rule. The ends per inch vary from 90 to 130 and picks 40 to 60. Fine warp and thick hard twisted weft. Usually dyed in light shades and finished to 54-in. A sample quality is made 58-m., 120 X 48 per inch, 2/72's / 2/36's, 1 X 2 weave.