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His family owned the textile firm Simonis et Biolley, after a merger resulting when his sister Marie Anne Simonis married Jean-François Biolley. Iwan Simonis, a modern descendant of the 17th-century company, bears Simonis' name. It is known for producing billiard cloth, although it no longer produces cloth for most other uses. [2]
"Let's get the boys on the baize!" has been a catchphrase of BBC TV snooker presenter Rob Walker since 2008. [3]At one time, "the green baize door" (a door to which cloth had been tacked to deaden noise) in a house separated the servants' quarters from the family's living quarters; [4] hence the phrase's usage as a metonym for domestic service.
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards , pool , pyramid or snooker ) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate , that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize ), and surrounded by ...
Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table. Carom billiards (often simply called ...
The cloth used in upscale pool (and snooker) halls and home billiard rooms is "faster" (i.e., provides less friction, allowing the balls to roll farther across the table bed), and competition-quality pool cloth is made from 100% worsted wool. Snooker cloth traditionally has a nap (consistent fiber directionality) and balls behave differently ...
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
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The billiard table used for carom billiards is a pocketless version and is typically 3.0 by 1.5 metres (10 ft × 5 ft). [ 5 ] Most cloth made for carom billiard tables is a type of baize that is typically dyed green and is made from 100% worsted wool with no nap , which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little ...