Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout

Cloth


A textile which is made from wool with short staples, as distinct from worsted and stuff which use wool with long staples.

Whilst Bradford and Halifax concentrated on worsted textiles, towns such as Huddersfield and Dewsbury manufactured more cloth.

Some types of cloth and fabrics mentioned here include

Alpaca
Amens
Angora

Baize
Baldachin
Bay
Bays & says
Bedford
Birds-eye
Bombazine
Broad cloth

Calamanco
Calico
Calimanco
Callimancoe
Cambric
Camlet
Chenille
Coatings
Coburg
Corduroy

Damask
Diagonal
Dimity
Drill
Duroy

Everlastings

Felt
Figures
Flannel
Flannelette
Forest Whites
Fustian

Gabroon
Genappe

Halifax cloth
Harden cloth

Jean

Kendal cloth
Kersey
Lasting
Lawn
Linsey
Little Joans
Long ell

Mackintosh
Medley cloth
Mohair
Moleskin
Moreen

Nainsook
Narrow cloth
Noondoo
Northern dozens
Norwich crapes

Orleans

Petersham
Prunelle

Russel

Sateen
Satin
Say
Seersucker
Serge
Shalloon
Shoddy
Stuff

Taffeta
Thin Plains
Toilinette
Turkey red
Twill

Velvet
Velveteen

Whipcord
Whole cloth
Wildbore
Worsted 


See Cloth Hall, Heptonstall Cloth Hall, Cloth-making, Clout, Farming, Cloth friezer, Halifax cloth, Halifax Cloth Hall, St Bartholomew's Cloth Fair, Perch and Printing on cloth




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