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101 Bayadere
Fabric woven from all grey warp and with coloured bars in the weft in alternate stripes of brilliant colours, both in silk and mixed yarns, plain and twill weaves. They are really crossovers. At times lace or other trimmings are sewn across a grey fabric to form cross stripes. The name is derived from Bayadine dancing girls of the underworld in India. The striped garment being supplemented with a filmy scarf or shawl, jewelled trousers, bangles, gold sequins, anklets, etc. -
102 Beaumontia Gigantia
A variety of vegetable silk from this plant grown in India. The fibres are white, firm and tough, though not harsh. Used mostly as a stuffing material.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Beaumontia Gigantia
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103 Bengal
A thin fabric composed of silk and hair, imported from Bengal. Also the term used in the 18th and 19th centuries for striped cotton muslins made at Paisley and exported to India. -
104 Bombax Cotton
The seed hair obtained from the plant known as the " cotton tree," belonging to the Bombacea; family. The fibre is known as Vegetable Down or Bombax Cotton. It grows in tropical countries. The fibre is soft, rather weak, of white to a yellowish-brown colour, and is lustrous. It is not used by itself for spinning, but is sometimes mixed with ordinary cotton. It is chiefly used as a wadding material. The fibre does not grow directly from the seed as ordinary cotton, but originates at the inner side of the seed-capsule. There are several varieties of plants producing vegetable down, as follows: Brazil - Bombax heptaphyllum; Bombax ceiba. The product is known as ceiba or Paina buifa cotton. South Asia and Africa - B. malabaricum. Known in India as Simal cotton or Red Silk cotton. Venezuela - B. cumanensis, giving a product known as Lana del tamber or Lana vejetale. Brazil - B. Villosum; B. pubescens. South America - B. carolinum. West Africa - B. Phodognaphalon. Known as wild kapok. South Asia and East Indies - B. Pentandrum. This is the kapok of commerce. -
105 Bool Bool Chrshum
A figured silk gauze from Bagdad. Made on hand looms from a crimson weft and yellow warp, in 28-in. The designs are small diamonds. A popular cloth in Northern India, about the 17th century. -
106 Broadtail
BROADTAIL, or MOIRE LAMBFine quality lambskins originating principally in India and China, with natural markings varying from patterns similar to the Genuine Broadtail to patterns resembling that of moire silk - (R.T.S.A.) ———————— This means a. dyed fine quality lambskin with artificial broadtail marking, obtained from shearing - (R.T.S.A.) -
107 Moire Lamb
BROADTAIL, or MOIRE LAMBFine quality lambskins originating principally in India and China, with natural markings varying from patterns similar to the Genuine Broadtail to patterns resembling that of moire silk - (R.T.S.A.) -
108 Cabeca
The Portuguese name for the finest quality of silk imported from India. -
109 Cachemire
A style showing palms and other Persian and Indian patterns in dark, rich oriental colourings. Akin to Persian effects. The name is derived from Cashmere, India, noted for shawls, and other beautiful fabrics, made from the hair of the native goat. The French-made shawls of this name are the finest quality they make. They are ornamented on above principles of design with silk figuring on cashmere wool ground. -
110 Calotropis Gigantea
This plant yields a fibre about 1-in. to 1-in. in length, which is a form of vegetable silk and known in India as Mudar floss. It also gives a bast fibre of superior quality, resembling flax in appearance and strength. The plant also yields gutta percha varnish, dye and medicinal substances.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Calotropis Gigantea
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111 Camlet
A fine, thin, plain-weave cloth, woven from camlet yarns, 30-in., 60 yards, usually dyed bright red. Camlet yarn is spun from lustrous wool, Lincoln or Leicester. The Dutch introduced the cloth, but they used camel hair or goat hair. Other qualities are made from hard twisted worsted yarns about 36 X 40 per inch, 2/30's 2/34's. In the 17th century a camlet of wool and silk was used for making gowns. It is mentioned in Pepys Diary, in 1664: " I put on my camelott suit, the best I ever wore in my life." In the latter part of the 17th century camelots of various colours were highly esteemed. First made in Montgomeryshire on the banks of the river Camlet. The true camlet is made in India of camel hair (see Patu Khudrang) -
112 Camelott
A fine, thin, plain-weave cloth, woven from camlet yarns, 30-in., 60 yards, usually dyed bright red. Camlet yarn is spun from lustrous wool, Lincoln or Leicester. The Dutch introduced the cloth, but they used camel hair or goat hair. Other qualities are made from hard twisted worsted yarns about 36 X 40 per inch, 2/30's 2/34's. In the 17th century a camlet of wool and silk was used for making gowns. It is mentioned in Pepys Diary, in 1664: " I put on my camelott suit, the best I ever wore in my life." In the latter part of the 17th century camelots of various colours were highly esteemed. First made in Montgomeryshire on the banks of the river Camlet. The true camlet is made in India of camel hair (see Patu Khudrang) -
113 Char Khonama
CHAR KHONAMA (Lit.: squares of flowers with four petals)A silk brocade woven in India on hand looms. The flowers are in white and yellow on a black ground. The squares are set as diamonds. -
114 Cherquemolle
A fabric made in Northern India for native use. It is made plain weave of yarns homespun of silk and bast fibres mixed. The cloth is coarse, but serviceable. -
115 Choli
A body-cloth of cotton warp and silk weft, worn by women in India. -
116 Choppat
A silk taffeta made in Orissa, India. -
117 Chuquelas
A poplin cloth, silk warp and cotton weft, made in India and chiefly used by the natives. -
118 Chussum
Silk waste exported from India. -
119 Cloth Embroidery
A variety of exquisite needlework, practised by the natives of India, Persia, China and Japan. Coloured pieces of cloth are cut in handsome designs and sewn together with floss silk or gold and silver thread. The work is really inlaid applique. -
120 Coortah
A tight fitting jacket worn by some of the native women of India. Made of cotton and silk or all cotton.
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