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2. Lincoln green - Wikipedia

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   Lincoln green is the colour of dyed woollen cloth formerly originating in Lincoln, England, a major cloth town during the high Middle Ages. The dyers of Lincoln, known for colouring wool with woad to give it a strong blue shade, [2] created the eponymous Lincoln green by overdyeing this blue wool with yellow weld or dyers' broom.

3. Loden cape - Wikipedia

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   This fabric is derived from the coarse, oily wool of mountain sheep and has a traditional earthy green colour. The name is derived from Middle High German "lode" or from Old High German "lodo", meaning "coarse cloth". [1] It is a cloth of traditional Tracht worn in Tyrol.

4. Green textile - Wikipedia

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   Green textiles are fabrics or fibres produced to replace environmentally harmful textiles and minimise the ecological impact.Green textiles (or eco-textiles) are part of the sustainable fashion and eco-friendly trends, providing alternatives to the otherwise pollution-heavy products of conventional textile industry, which is deemed the most ecologically damaging industry.

5. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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   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] Wool fabrics were dyed in rich colours, notably reds, greens, golds, and blues. [61]

6. Linsey-woolsey - Wikipedia

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   The coarse fabric called stuff woven at Kidderminster from the 17th century, originally a wool fabric, may have been of linsey-woolsey construction later on. Linsey-woolsey was an important fabric in the Colonial America due to the relative scarcity of wool in the colonies. [2]

7. Hudson's Bay point blanket - Wikipedia

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   The classic design featuring green stripe, red stripe, yellow stripe and indigo stripe on a white background. A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States, from 1779 to present. [1]