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21 Katari Cloth
Hand-woven plain cloth, fine counts, using silk warp and 60's to 80's cotton weft. Coloured yarns are used, yellow and indigo or yellow and black. Made in Bengal on hand looms. -
22 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. -
23 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. -
24 Himalaya Cloth
A plain weave cotton fabric woven on an ordinary plain loom using specially spun weft. A check appearance is given to the cloth by coarse picks of 8 to 12 threads being woven at irregular intervals. The base weft will be 28's and after about 20 yards of 28's have been spun an extra roving is added for 8 to 12 yards, making the weft much thicker, equivalent to about 6's. At places the heavier weft may begin or end in the middle of a pick. Usually 34-in. wide 90 yards, 72 ends and 36 picks per inch, 20's T., 28's/6's W. The weft yam may be termed an elongated slub. -
25 Palm Beach Cloth
A wool fabric originally made for wear as suitings, dresses, etc., at Palm Beach, U.S.A. Plain weave, from light coloured yarn dyed wools, in 26-in. widths, 48 ends and 48 picks per inch, 40's worsted warp and weft. They are now also made with two-fold or single cotton warp and about 40/58 picks per inch, in both plain colours and stripes. The weft is either mohair or hard wool. A popular cloth is made 2 white 2 grey ends, in the warp of 2/32's cotton, and 24's lustre weft, 34 ends and 42 picks per inch. An all-cotton imitation is made, but is a very poor substitute. -
26 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. -
27 Edafuhri Cloth
Cotton fabrics made on hand looms in the Maldive Islands in plain weave and mostly violet and green coloured. They are chiefly noted for the excellence of the dyes used. Although the price is higher than the cloth imported from India, everyone is expected to wear this native-made cloth on public occasions. The quality varies considerably. One cloth is made 44 ends and 40 picks per inch, 24's warp, 32's weft. -
28 Kareya Cloth
Plain weave cotton cloth for use in Chota Nagpur. Woven in low reeds from 7's warp and weft, about 28-in. wide X 6 yards long. The cloth is strong and durable and used as a waist cloth. -
29 Leather Cloth
A kind of melton fabric, woven with cotton warp, two ends as one, and wool weft, plain weave, and generally dyed black or very dark grey. Made principally in Yorkshire with very heavy yarns, and is a cheap type of melton cloth. ———————— A fabric made from cotton to imitate leather in appearance. After being dyed and shrunk the cloth is passed through spreading machines which apply a nitro-cellulose coloured paste. If necessary several coats of paste may be applied. The fabric is then dried, the solvents evaporated, and finally embossed to simulate the grain of leather, etc. -
30 Silver Cloth
A dress material of French manufacture made of special yarns, composed of 80 per cent of wool and 20 per cent of vegetable silk, or Asclepios cotton. Mostly plain weave. A silver cloth was patented in 1934 after considerable research. The method finally covered by patent was to immerse the cloth in a solution of silver nitrate and follow this treatment by precipitation of the silver in the fibres by means of sodium carbonate. The resulting silver cloth actually contains about 9 per cent of silver and has a decided brown colour due to the silver oxide. -
31 Florodor Cloth
A light-weight union fabric for tropical suitings. Made of wool and cotton in plain weave. Mostly in,plain dyed, but stripes are also made from dyed yarns. -
32 Stafford Cloth
A heavy cotton fabric for use as curtains, in plain or rep weaves from dyed and mercerised cotton yarns in many qualities, such as 56-in., 80 ends and 68 picks per inch, 2/60's warp, 2/24's weft, plain weave 56-in., 106 ends and 58 picks per inch, 2/60's warp, 2/30's weft, rep weave. -
33 Canvas Cloth
A Bradford made fabric for dress purposes. All botany yarns are used, generally three fold warp and three fold or four fold weft, about 20 to 24 ends and picks per inch, which, in the plain weave, gives an open character to the cloth. An example of the cloth is made 20 X 20 per inch, 3/30's warp, 4/46's weft, botany yarns. Canvas is mentioned in 1611, as "striped canvas for doublets." -
34 Grass Cloth (Canton Linen)
A plain weave fabric made in China from ramie yarns. It is woven on hand looms in coarse reeds and with few picks. The natural lustre of the yams is not interfered with, as the fabric is used in the loom state. A small quantity is dyed blue, or bleached and used for dresses, but the bulk of the cloth is used for table covers in the loom state. Widths are 15-in. or 16-in. and lengths 30 yards, made on native looms. A fabric made of yarn spun from nettle fibre was also known as grass cloth.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Grass Cloth (Canton Linen)
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35 Jaspe Cloth
A coloured plain weave cloth, sold in 39-in., 45-in. and 51-in. widths for India. The weft is usually 200 denier viscose. Warp stripes in brown and white in several tones. One cloth is made 48 ends and 48 picks per inch, 24's cotton warp, 200 denier viscose weft
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36 Label Cloth
A heavily sized plain weave cotton cloth used for labels, tags, etc. The cloth is finished with a glazed surface. One quality is made 64 ends and 64 picks per inch, 32's T., 30's W., but there are numerous qualities. -
37 Manta Cloth
A plain weave cloth of no particular style for shipping to Columbia. Most of the cheaper plains come under this name. The real manta cloth is an unbleached cotton muslin, woven in Mexico and used for many articles of wear. About 36-in. wide, 52 ends and 52 picks per inch, 32's T., 34's W. -
38 Mutka Cloth
A rough, plain weave cloth made in the Punjab, India, on hand looms from native silk. The yarns are coarse and a low reed is used. The cloth is woven undyed and without the gum having been discharged. It is used by the natives for garments. -
39 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. -
40 Poncho Cloth
A Yorkshire-made cloth with heavy cotton warp and heavy wool weft. Made 56-in. and wider, with a wide coloured wool selvedge. Cross dyed and well finished. Plain or twill weaves. A style of Melton cloth. Another style is made from worsted warp and cotton weft about 72 ends and 40 picks per inch, 2/40's worsted warp, 14's cotton weft. Others have drab or brown stripes.
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