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Crash (fabric) Crash fabric is coarse linen based rugged material made from both dyed and raw yarns. Dorrock, a stout linen table cloth made in Scotland. Dowlas, a strong linen mentioned by Shakespeare; Linenize; Linothorax, armor of layers of linen; Madapollam, a fabric manufactured from cotton yarn in a linen-style weave
The exemption of raw cotton saw two thousand bales of cotton being imported annually, from Asia and the Americas, and forming the basis of a new indigenous industry, initially producing Fustian for the domestic market, though more importantly triggering the development of a series of mechanised spinning and weaving technologies, to process the ...
[1]: 2 Eventually, the term evolved to refer to a merchant or trader of textile goods, especially imported textile goods, particularly in England. A merchant would be known as a mercer, and the profession as mercery. The occupation of mercery has a rich and complex history dating back over 1,000 years in what is now the United Kingdom.
Second and revised edition. ©The American Museum of Natural History. A publication of the Anthropological Handbook Fund, New York, 1960. Habib, Irfan (2011). Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500. Pearson Education. ISBN 9788131727911. Jenkins, David, ed. (2003). The Cambridge History of Western Textiles. Cambridge University Press.
Dornix originated in the Belgian town of Tournai (Doornik in Flemish) in the 15th century and was made from a combination of wool and linen. [2] It was a coarse cloth, similar to kersey, and used on beds, hangings, curtains and similar purposes. [3]
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.
Goodall successfully produced heavy, richly decorated plush mohair fabrics. The buildings Goodall constructed before 1882 have all been demolished, many of them during the modernization phase in the 1910s. The Goodall family operated the mills until 1953, when they sold them to the Burlington Mills Corporation. Burlington shut the mills down in ...
Wool remained the most popular fabric for all classes, followed by linen and hemp. [61] Wool fabrics were available in a wide range of qualities, from rough undyed cloth to fine, dense broadcloth with a velvety nap; high-value broadcloth was a backbone of the English economy and was exported throughout Europe. [68]