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The length of the beam determined the width of the cloth woven upon the loom, and could be as wide as 2–3 meters. [26] Early woven clothing was often made of full loom widths draped, tied, or pinned in place.
1493 – The first available reference to lace is in a will by one of the ruling Milanese Sforza family. [10] 1550-1600 – Armazine and Bombazine introduced for the first time in United Kingdom. 1590 – First reference to Cambric fabric. [11] 1840 – Barathea developed as a cloth for mourning clothes. [12] 1892 – Cross, Bevan & Beadle ...
In 2013 a piece of cloth woven from hemp was found in burial F. 7121 at the Çatalhöyük site, [19] suggested to be from around 7000 BCE [20] [21] Further finds come from the Neolithic civilisation preserved in the pile dwellings in Switzerland. [22] Another extant fragment from the Neolithic was found in Fayum, at a site dated to about 5000 ...
Taffeta (archaically spelled taffety or taffata) is a crisp, smooth, plain woven fabric made from silk, nylon, cuprammonium rayons, acetate, or polyester. The word came into Middle English via Old French and Old Italian, which borrowed the Persian word tāfta (تافته), which means "silk" or "linen cloth". [ 1 ]
Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...
Brocade (/ b r oʊ ˈ k eɪ d /) 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 ", comes from Italian broccato meaning 'embossed cloth', originally past participle of the verb broccare 'to stud, set with ...
A lace fabric is lightweight openwork fabric, patterned, with open holes in the work. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often lace is built up from a single thread and the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace may be crocheted tatted,or knitted.
It is probable that Egypt (and Asia Minor generally) still produced cotton well after the 7th and 8th centuries, and knowledge (and samples) of this cloth was brought to Europe by the returning Crusaders; however, the logistics and expense of equipping a town militia or army with large numbers of cotton-based garments make its usage doubtful ...