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Seersucker. Blue and white is a common seersucker color combination. Seersucker, hickory stripe or railroad stripe is a thin, puckered, usually cotton fabric, commonly but not necessarily striped or chequered, used to make clothing for hot weather. The word originates from the Persian words شیر shîr and شکر shakar, literally meaning ...
Seersucker Thursday is an annual tradition in the United States Congress in which senators wear clothing made of seersucker on National Seersucker Day, traditionally observed on a " 'nice and warm day' in the second or third week of June'". [1] This light, cotton-based material is associated with the warm and humid climate of the Southern ...
The study of the history of clothing and textiles traces the development, use, and availability of clothing and textiles over human history. Clothing and textiles reflect the materials and technologies available in different civilizations at different times. The variety and distribution of clothing and textiles within a society reveal social ...
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft, woof, or filling.
[3] [4] [5] Within a few years, Haspel started selling seersucker suits to businessmen in the South. [4] To promote the suits, Haspel once "walked into the sea at a Florida convention and later attended a meeting of the board of directors in the same suit. He convinced the board members that such suits were the wave of the future."
1842 – John Greenough patents the first sewing machine in the United States. 1844 – John Smith of Salford granted a patent for a shuttleless rapier loom. [citation needed] 1846 – John Livesey adapts John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine into the curtain machine. 1847 – William Mason Patents his "Mason self-acting" Mule.
Calico (/ ˈkælɪkoʊ /; in British usage since 1505) [1] is a heavy [2] plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is far coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim.
Brocade. Silk brocade fabric, Lyon, France, 1760–1770. Detail of hair-sash being brocaded on a Jakaltek Maya backstrap loom. Brocade (/ broʊˈkeɪd /) is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads. [1] The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli ...