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1 Cloth Braid
A narrow lace used for trimmings and lace making (see Braid Laces) -
2 Cloth Ingrain
An English worsted of the 14th and 15th centuries, made into garments for the wealthy people. -
3 Cloth Of Areste
A very costly fabric of the 13th to 16th centuries, made of silk and richly decorated with gold ornament - used for church vestments. -
4 Cloth Of Fall
Rich mediaeval silk fabric dyed crimson; used for church vestments. No particular fabric is denoted, but any brocade used as an ensign, robe, or covering - pall of state, and generally the term means - Baudekin. -
5 Cloth Of Gold
A fabric with a pure silk ground in brocade designs, developed with gold threads. Woven at Braintree for very special purposes - Coronation robes, court dresses, church vestments, etc. The fabric is specially made as required. -
6 Cloth Of Raynes
A fine linen fabric, formerly made in Britanny, and used for shirts and bed linen during the 14th and 15th centuries. -
7 cloth, (cloths)
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8 cloth, (cloths)
قِطْعَة قماش \ cloth, (cloths): a piece of cloth for a special purpose: a tablecloth; a cloth for cleaning one’s shoes. -
9 cloth, cloths
قُمَاشَة \ cloth, cloths: a piece of cloth for a special purpose: a tablecloth; a cloth for cleaning one’s shoes. -
10 cloth, (cloths)
قُمَاش \ cloth, (cloths): material made by weaving: cotton cloth. fabric: cloth; woven material: Cotton fabric. material: cloth: buy a length of material for a dress. sacking: the cloth of which sacks are made. -
11 Renaissance Cloth
A term used in France for cloth made of shoddy. -
12 Hair Cloth
A heavy twilled cloth containing wool waste and some calf hair. A nap is raised by gigging. Used for carriage rugs. ———————— This fabric is woven from very strong three-fold cotton warp and horsehair weft. Other material, such as linen, has been used for the warp. Usually made with about 44 ends per inch, and 80 to 100 picks per inch. The weave is usually the 5-end satin. Horse hair is not dyed, and the hair used is generally black, and is cut from both the tails and manes. The lengths vary from 30-in. to 46-in., and a single hair forms one pick. A special loom is used, fitted with mechanism for picking up the hairs and drawing them one by one into the shed. The shuttle for doing this is equipped with a pair of nippers. There is a rough fringe of hair at each selvedge. The cloth is very stiff or wiry and is used for coat linings. Formerly the cloth was also used for upholstering chairs and couches, and some is used today for this purpose (see Cilicium).
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13 Billiard Cloth
BILLIARD CLOTH, or FELTThe finest textile fabric made and is a woollen cloth of the beaver type. The wool is very carefully selected and then spun with great care. Expert weavers operate the looms which weave into cloths the thousands of very fine threads. The cloth is then milled so thoroughly that it is waterproof and capable of resisting the dampest atmosphere. The dye used is such that light has little effect upon it. The best merino wool is used, and when ready for use the cloth has a perfect level face, soft and smooth. Plain weave is used for the best grades and 3-shaft twill for others. Widths from 72-in. to 81-in. Cloth shrinks about 331/3 per cent from reed width to the finished width. An all-cotton billiard cloth is now being made and is meeting with much support. -
14 Horse-Hair Cloth
The original cloth was made by a Paris manufacturer in the 18th century who patented a process to make horse-hair cloth for upholstery and this was very popular for some years but is now obsolete. The stuffing cloth now used as stiffening and underlining for coats is often made of glazed cotton or hemp yarn exclusively because of the high price of the horse hair. See Palmet fibre which is used as a substitute for horse hair as well as "black fibre." -
15 Mummy Cloth
A fabric resembling crepe, composed of silk warp and wool weft in the best qualities, with cotton warp in lower grades, and used as mourning in black because of its lustreless surface. Fine closely woven plain linen fabric used in ancient Egypt for wrapping mummies. The best examples have two-fold warp and single weft and two or three times as many warp ends as picks. One example has 140 ends and 64 picks per inch, 100's linen warp and weft. One wrapping cloth from a mummy contained 540 threads of warp per inch. Unbleached, plain woven, heavy linen or cotton fabrics, used as a ground cloth for embroidery is known as mummy. A crinkled lustreless black cloth made with cotton warp and wool weft is called momie cloth. -
16 Bearing Cloth
The mantle or cloth used to cover a child when it was carried to baptism, generally decorated with lace or fringe. May be of any style of cloth. In 1623 " five yards of damaske to make a bearing cloth " is bought at a cost of ???3 6 s. 6 d., and, in addition, " for taffetie to lyne it " 32 s., and " for lace to ornament it," eleven ounces, 57 s. 6 d. -
17 Lined Cloth
A warp knitted woollen fabric for glove making, made with the threads of the upper guides napped to form a fur back. When the upper guide carries cotton yarn and the lower guide woollen yarn, the fabric is called " lined cloth." When the upper guide carries wool and the lower guide cotton, the cloth is known as " plush lining." When the upper guide carries soft-twisted cotton yarn and the lower guide hard-twisted cotton yarn, the cloth is called " cotton lining." The fabrics are chiefly used for glove linings. -
18 Negro Cloth
A cheap and very coarse plain weave hemp cloth, often mixed with cotton, imported by America from England during the 17th and 18th centuries and used for clothing for the negro slaves. At the beginning of the 19th century when American mills began to make the cloth, some of them used coarse wool for weft which they imported from Smyrna. -
19 Tobacco Cloth
Low quality plain weave cloth used for covering plants, for packing meat, bookbinding, etc. Bleached and soft finished. Widths from 24-in. to 46-in. A standard cloth has 28 ends and 24 picks per inch, 30's warp, 44's weft, and weighs 61/4-lb. for 36-in. 100 yards. -
20 Orleans Cloth
Also known as Lustre Orleans. It is a plain weave cloth with fine cotton warp and worsted weft. It is very closely woven and used for dress purposes. A typical cloth is made 60 ends and 140 picks per inch, 40's/56's Egyptian warp. Botany weft. This cloth was first made in 1856 by Mr. Barratt, who produced the cloth as "Summer Cloth" at the request of an American customer. He produced a plain weave cloth, diagonal twill, three-shaft twill and a crepe.
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Cloth — (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. {Cloths} (kl[o^][th]z; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is {Clothes} (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan. kl[ae]de, cloth, Sw … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cloth measure — Cloth Cloth (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. {Cloths} (kl[o^][th]z; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is {Clothes} (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cloth of gold — Cloth Cloth (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. {Cloths} (kl[o^][th]z; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is {Clothes} (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cloth paper — Cloth Cloth (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. {Cloths} (kl[o^][th]z; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is {Clothes} (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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