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  2. Fustian - Wikipedia

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    The original medieval fustian was a stout but respectable cloth with a cotton weft and a linen warp. [5] The term seems to have quickly become less precise, and was applied to a coarse cloth made of wool and linen, and in the reign of Edward III of England, the name was given to a woollen fabric.

  3. List of fabrics - Wikipedia

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    Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, ... Corduroy; Cotton duck; Crash (fabric) Crêpe (textile) Crêpe de Chine; Cretonne; Crochet; D. Damask; Darlexx;

  4. Corduroy - Wikipedia

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    Corduroy is considered a durable cloth and is found in the construction of trousers, jackets, and shirts. The width of the wales varies between fabric styles and is specified by wale count—the number of wales per inch. [5] A wale is a column of loops running lengthwise, corresponding to the warp of woven fabric. [6]

  5. Bedford cord - Wikipedia

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    Bedford cord. Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy. The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width ...

  6. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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    Early industrialized region at Barmen in the Wupper Valley, 1870 - painting by August von Wille. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom. The main drivers of the Industrial Revolution were textile manufacturing, iron founding ...

  7. Challis (fabric) - Wikipedia

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    Challis, sometimes referred to as challie [1] or chally, [2] is a lightweight woven fabric, originally a silk -and- wool blend, which can also be made from a single fibre, such as cotton, silk or wool, [3] or from man-made fabrics such as rayon. [4] It was first manufactured in Norwich, England, in about 1832, when it was designed as a thin ...

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