Woven and interlocking materials

Woven and interlocking materials

Hessian is a rough, plain weave fabric made from jute fibres, generally left undyed. It is also known, in the USA and Canada, as burlap. The name is linked to the German principality of Hesse, and to the uniforms of its soldiers. Hessian cloth was first exported from India in the early nineteenth century.

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Holland or Holland cloth is a tabby woven, matt linen cloth used as a furniture cover, window cover, jar cover, and so forth.

Huckaback cloth is an absorbent cotton or linen material made from a self-patterning weave (patterns in the cloth are made by changing the weave in specific places; compare a damask weave) with a tabby ground and small, all-over motifs in offset rows.

Java canvas is a nineteenth century form of canvas, in which three or four warp threads and three or four weft threads are used in blocks, with a small gap between each block.

Koukoulíthra is a cotton/silk woven cloth that was sometimes used on the Greek island of Skyros as a ground material for embroideries.

Lais is a nineteenth and early twentieth century Indian (Hindu) term for a form of woven braid

Linen is a term used to describe both the thread and any cloth made from flax. Flax is a bast fibre obtained from the stem of a plant of the Linaceae family (Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum). Examples of linen cloth have been found at various archaeological sites that date back to at least the fifth millennium BC (from the Middle Eastern sites of Nahal and Çatal Hüyük) and the use of linen may have started even earlier.

Linsey-woolsey (also called woolsey-linsey) originally referred to a textile made with a flax warp and a wool (worsted) weft. Later it came to mean a material of coarse, inferior wool (weft), woven with a cotton warp. It generally came in plain blue or white, or with blue and white stripes. The name linsey is associated with the Suffolk (UK) town of Linsey, where this type of cloth was woven.

Loden is a type of woollen cloth that is made from carded fibres. The woven material is fulled (kneaded until the material is felting) after weaving. After fulling it is brushed and sheared repeatedly. Modern loden cloth is principally made from Austrian sheep, but also other fibres may be added.

Marseille quilt is a form of cloth with machine printed patterns resembling hand-stitched quilting.

Mosaic canvas is a nineteenth century term for a very fine canvas of cotton, flax, hemp or silk.

In the UK, muslin is the name for a very fine, almost transparent cotton fabric. It was used for ladies' garments, light weight curtains, hangings, etc. The first use of the word in England dates to the early seventeenth century and is related to the French term mousseline and the Italian mussolina and musselo, allegedly referring to the town of Mosul (in modern northern Iraq), or to the Indian port of Masulipatnam.

With respect to decorative needlework, a net is a mesh ground material made by interlacing threads using a machine, rather than being made by hand.

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