A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods

The plan of the "Dictionary of Dry Goods" includes several objects, which, briefly stated, are: the proper description of all textile fabrics and manufactured articles; the peculiarities which distinguish a fabric and by which it may be identified; the method of weaving or manufacture; the origin of the names of all fabrics, with the history and literature of the subject; the definition of terms, words and phrases which have only a trade application, and which have sprung up with the development of the business in the nineteenth century; and the import duties under the new tariff on all goods, raw or manufactured. The Dictionary is designed to be a practically complete and comprehensive record of all fabrics which are in general use at the present time, together with full explanations of the modern process of carding, spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting, netting, bleaching, and felting, constituting a book for general reference by merchants and clerks.

Title	A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods
Author	George S. Cole
Publisher	W. B. Conkey company, Chicago, Printers and Binders
Year	1892
Copyright	1892, George S. Cole
Amazon	A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances,: Including a full explanation of the modern processes ... together with various useful tables

Revised Edition

And History Of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool And Other Fibrous Substances Including A Full Explanation Of The Modern Processes Of Spinning, Dyeing And Weaving, With An Appendix Containing A Treatise On Window Trimming, German Words And Phrases, With Their English Pronunciation And Signification, Together With Various Useful Tables.

By George S. Cole. 1892

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1892, by George S. Cole, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

All rights and privileges reserved.

W. B. Conkey company, Chicago, Printers and Binders.

"To please the flesh a thousand arts contend. The miser's heaps of gold, the figur'd vest, The gem, the silk worm and the purple dye. By toil acquir'd, promote no other end."

Preface: In presenting to the Dry Goods trade its first Dictionary (of American origin) the compiler feels confident that the time and labor devoted to make the work accurate ...

Abb Wool: Abb Wool. In wool-sorting one of the two qualities known as coarse abb and fine abb; the lowest quality of wool used in the ...

Abnet: Abnet. [From Hebrew abnet, a belt] In Jewish antiquity a girdle of fine linen. In surgery a bandage resembling ...

Acca: Acca. [From Acre, a city in Syria, whence it was first obtained] A rich figured silk fabric decorated with gold, in ...

Adulteration Of Fabrics: Adulteration Of Fabrics. Woolens have been for years past largely adulterated with refuse fibers called ...

Agra Gauze: Agra Gauze. A cobwebby fabric woven of gossamer silk threads. It is transparent ...

Aida Canvas: Aida Canvas (A'-Da Canvas). A species of canvas woven of pure linen, and frequently called Java ...

Aigrette: Aigrette (A'-Gret Or A-Gret), A French word used to denote the plume or feathery tuft on the heads of several varieties of birds, as the heron. Hence the term ...

Alamode: Alamode (Al'-A-Mode). A thin, glossy silk used for hoods and scarfs. ...

Alaska: Alaska. The name given to a variety of sandal-shaped overshoes, without fastenings of any sort, having cloth uppers and rubber soles. [See ...

Albatross: Albatross (Al'-Ba-Tross). A soft untwilled woolen dress fabric; properly a soft fine ...

Albert-Cloth: Albert-Cloth. An all-wool material the two sides of which are of different colors and patterns, each side ...

Alexis: Alexis (A-Lex'-Is). A style of fur cap for men, distinguished by the crown being made long and deep so that it may be ...

Alizarin: Alizarin (Al-I-Za'-Rin). [From al-i-za-ri, the commercial name of madder in Asia] A peculiar red coloring matter formerly obtained from ...

Alpaca: Alpaca. The wooly hair of an animal of the camel tribe, which inhabit the mountainous districts of Chili and Peru. In appearance this wool ...

Altar Cloth: Altar Cloth. A general term, formerly designating the closed case of linen used for covering an altar, and which was never allowed to ...

Aluminum: Aluminum (Al-U'-Mi-Num). - An extremely light metal made from Iceland spar. Aside from its lightness and strength, it is malleable, does not rust, is as ...

American Cloth: American Cloth. A name given in England to a cotton cloth, prepared with a glazed and varnished surface ...

Angola: Angola. A diaper-woven cotton cloth with a fine rough face, somewhat resembling a ...

Angora Wool Or Mohair: Angora Wool Or Mohair. Of all animals whose fleece is largely used in the manufacture of ...

Angora Cashmere: Angora Cashmere. A term employed to denote a certain kind of cloth made in imitation of camels'-hair ...

Aniline: Aniline. One of the very numerous products of the distillation of coal tar. The readiness with which aniline, in certain of its reactions, produced very brilliant ...

Applique: Applique (Ap-Pli-Ka'). In modern dress and upholstery this term signifies applied or sewed on. Thus, the ...

Apron: Apron. The apron dates far back. Ever since over first parents ages and ages ago sewed fig leaves into aprons to conceal their nakedness, this style of ...

Arctics: Arctics. A heavy variety of rubber overshoes, distinguished by having a cloth top which buckles up over the ankles, rubber heels and ...

Areophane: Areophane. A variety of crape, but considerably thinner than the ordinary kind. It was formerly used chiefly for ...

Armozeen: Armozeen (Ar-Mo-Zeen'). [From French armoism] A kind of taffeta or plain silk used for women's dresses in the ...

Armure Or Royal Armure: Armure Or Royal Armure. [French for armor] The word is suggestive of the style of weaving. In feudal times ...

Arras: Arras (Ar'-As). Arras cloth takes its name from the town of Arras, situated in the north of France. In the ...

Arrasene: Arrasene (Ar-A-Sene'). A sort of cord made with a central thread and a thick velvet-like ...

Asbestos: Asbestos (As-Bes'-Tos). A fibrous variety of a mineral substance, composed of separable filaments, with a silky luster. Its fibres are sometimes flexible and ...

Astrakhan: Astrakhan (As'-Tra-Kan). [From Astrakhana, a city and province in Russia] Originally in Russia this was a name given to skins having a short, curly ...

Aune: Aune. A French long measure of 11/4 yards, used chiefly for cloth. It is derived from Latin alna, forearm. [See ...

Baby Caps: Baby Caps. The styles of baby caps are originated in Paris and other fashion centres of Europe, and are copied in this country the ...

Baize: Baize. [Spanish plural for bay] In the 16th century a light woolen fabric of a brownish-red or bay color (whence its name) was ...

Balayeuse: Balayeuse (Bah'-Lay-Yuhz). [French feminine of balayeur, a sweeper] A frilling of lace or muslin which lines ...

Balbriggan: Balbriggan. A descriptive term applied to cotton knitted fabrics, either hosiery or ...

Baleen: Baleen (Ba-Lene'). The horny teeth of whales; whalebone in its natural state. [Whalebone]....

Balloon-Net: Balloon-Net. A kind of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the ...

Balmoral: Balmoral (Bal-Mor'-Al). A name given to various articles of dress, possessing unusual strength and weight. Specifically, a term applied ...

Band: Band. A flexible material, used to bind or bend around anything; as a hat-band. Also a border or strip on an article of dress serving to ...

Bandana: Bandana (Ban-Dan'-A). [From a Hindoo word Bandhnn, which means '* a mode of dyeing, in which the cloth is tied ...

Bangle: Bangle. [Hindoo Bangri, a bracelet of glass]. An ornamental ring worn upon the arms and ankles in India, and upon the legs and fastened in the ears, nose and lips ...

Bank-Credit: Bank-Credit. A credit that merchants often have with a bank, by which, on proper security given to the bank, the merchant receives liberty to draw to a ...

Bankrupt: Bankrupt. The breaking up of a merchant's business, due to his inability to meet his obligations. In modern law, any person who upon his own petition or that of ...

Bankruptcy Laws: Bankruptcy Laws. The legal regulations under which the property of an insolvent may be distributed among his creditors, with the double object of ...

Barcelona Silk Kerchiefs: Barcelona Silk Kerchiefs. These kerchiefs are named from Bar-ce-lo'-na, in Spain, from whence they were originally brought, though now all made ...

Barege: Barege (Ba-Razh'). [So called from Bareges, a town in France, where it was first made] Barege veiling is woven with an extremely fine ...

Barras: Barras (Bar'-As). A coarse linen fabric imported by this country in the 17th century from ...

Barrow-Coat: Barrow-Coat. A square or oblong piece of flannel, wrapped around an infant's body below the arms, the part extending beyond the ...

Barter: Barter. To traffic or trade by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from buying and selling for money. ...

Basket-Weave: Basket-Weave. A style of weaving which produces a pattern resembling the plaited-work of a basket. ...

Basse-Lisse: Basse-Lisse (Bas-Lese'). Woven with the warp in the usual horizontal position, as distinguished from that which is woven with the warp ...

Bast: Bast. The strong inner fibrous bark of various trees, especially a species of linden, of which the Russia matting of commerce is made. ...

Bastard Cloth: Bastard Cloth. A cloth presumably imitating a more expensive material. ...

Basting-Machine: Basting-Machine. A sewing-machine used for basting together pieces of fabrics, to make a continuous piece for bleaching, ...

Bat: Bat. See Batting. ...

Bathing Suits And Trunks: Bathing Suits And Trunks. Bathing trunks are usually made of knitted cotton or ...

Bating: Bating. The process of steeping hides and skins in an alkaline bath to separate the oil and fleshy matter, and render them soft and pliable, preparatory to tanning....

Batiste: Batiste. A variety of cotton muslin, having a good deal of dress, closely resembling ...

Batting: Batting. Raw cotton or wool prepared in thick, but lightly-matted lapped sheets, used chiefly in the ...

Baudekin: Baudekin (Ba'-De-Kin). A rich embroidered or brocaded silk fabric woven originally ...

Bayeta: Bayeta (Ba-Ya'-Ta). A common kind of coarse Spanish baize. [See Baize] ...

Beads: Beads. [From Anglo-Saxon bede, a prayer] Small perforated ornaments, of round or oblong shape, worn by women in necklaces, bracelets and head-dresses; and also for ...

Beam-Roll: Beam-Roll. In cloth manufacture, the spool-shaped roll upon which the warp-...

Bearing-Cloth: Bearing-Cloth. A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to church to be baptised, often richly embroidered ; also called ...

Beaver: Beaver. See Furs. ...

Beaver Cloth: Beaver Cloth. A thick woolen cloth used for garments by both sexes. The weave is similar to doeskin. ...

Beaver Bat: Beaver Bat. The modern stiff silk hat was commonly called a beaver until shortly after the civil ...

Beaverteen: Beaverteen. A strong twilled cotton fabric for men's wear, napped on wrong side ; similar to ...

Bed-Clothes: Bed-Clothes. The coverings used on beds; sheets, blankets, quilts, slips, etc., collectively. ...

Bedford Cord: Bedford Cord. A particular style of weave found usually in dress fabrics, consisting of heavy ribs running lengthwise of the ...

Bed-Gown: Bed-Gown. A night-gown or night-dress; a kind of jacket like a dressing-...

Bedizen: Bedizen (Be-Diz'-En). To deck or dress out, especially in a tawdry manner or with vulgar finery. ...

Bed-Linen: Bed-Linen. Sheets, pillow-cases and bolster slips, originally always of linen, but ...

Bed Pocket: Bed Pocket. A small bag, in use during the early part of the present century, hung at the head of the bed at night in which to put away things which might be ...

Bed Quilt: Bed Quilt. A wadded and quilted covering for a bed; as a bed spread or comfort, as distinguished from a counterpane or an ...

Bed Tick: Bed Tick. A case of strong cotton or linen material for containing the feathers or ...

Beetling Machine: Beetling Machine. A machine for finishing linen or cotton cloth ...

Beige: Beige (Bazh). [from It. bigio -gray] In France in the early part of the present century there was a sort of twilled dress ...

Bend-Leather: Bend-Leather. The strongest kind of sole-leather used for shoes. A name in the leather trade for a butt or rounded crop cut in two; ...

Bengaline: Bengaline (Ben' Gal-Ene'). A dress fabric woven exactly like a Faille ...

Bengal Stripes: Bengal Stripes. Wide striped ginghams used for skirting, so called from having originally been brought from Bengal, but now manufactured exclusively in ...

Berlin Wool: Berlin Wool. A fine woolen yarn for working fancy articles in needle work. Also called German ...

Berlin Gloves: Berlin Gloves. See Gloves. ...

Bias: Bias. A cut which is diagonal or oblique to the texture of a fabric. In ...

Bib: Bib. [From L. bibere to drink whence also our words imbibe, bibulous, etc] A cloth worn by children to keep the front of the ...

Birdseye Linen: Birdseye Linen. A honey comb or diamond-figured linen fabric used for towels and fancy-work. Birdseye is ...

Biretz: Biretz. See Electoral Cloth. ...

Blacksize: Blacksize. In leather manufacture, to cover the tanned skin with a coat of stiff ...

Blankets: Blankets. [Said to be derived from Fr. blanchet, meaning a blank piece of cloth, without figure. The name is also claimed to be derived ...

Blazer: Blazer. A bright colored, loose summer coat, usually of striped flannel, worn by tennis and cricket players. The ...

Bleaching: Bleaching. The process of freeing textile fibers and fabrics from their natural color, and rendering them white or nearly so. The ...

Block-Printing: Block-Printing. There are two modes of printing calico, block-print ing and machine-printing. The former ...

Blonde Lace: Blonde Lace. Blonde laces were first made in 1745, and being produced of unbleached silk, were known as Nankins or ...

Bloom: Bloom. A term applied to velvets, when by dyeing they are said to glow with a warm color, or luster. Dyers claim that the most important ...

Bloomers: Bloomers. A peculiar and ridiculous costume for women introduced and advocated in 1850 by a Mrs. Bloomer of New York, the distinctive features of which were a ...

Blouse: Blouse. A light, loose upper garment, made of linen or cotton, worn by men as a ...

Boa: Boa. [From Latin boa, a large serpent] A long, serpent-like piece of fur or feathers, worn around the neck by ...

Bobbinet: Bobbinet. A machine-made cotton netting, consisting of parallel threads which form the warp, upon which two ...

Bocasine: Bocasine (Bok'-A-Sin). [From buckram]. A linen fabric woven so fine as to look like ...

Booking: Booking. A coarse woolen flannel or baize named from Booking, Essex county, England,...

Bolster: Bolster. Something on which to rest the head while reclining; specifically a long cylindrical cushion, stuffed with feathers, hair, ...

Bolt: Bolt. Any quantity of rolled or wrapped fabric. ...

Bolting Cloth: Bolting Cloth. A cloth of linen or silk used in mills for bolting or sifting meal ...

Bombast: Bombast. Cotton or other stuff of a soft, loose texture, used to ...

Bombazine: Bombazine (Bom-Ba-Zeen'). [From bombycina, made of silk] Originally a dress fabric ...

Bombyx: Bombyx. The caterpillar of the Bombyx mori is well known by the name of silk worm. When full grown it is three inches long. It feeds on the ...

Bombycinous: Bombycinous. Silken; made of silk; silky, feeling like silk; or, of the color of the silk-worm moth, of a pale yellow color. ...

Bone-Lace: Bone-Lace. Lace, usually of linen thread, made on a cushion with bobbins, and taking ...

Bonnet: Bonnet. [From Hindoo banat, woolen cloth or broadcloth] A form of head-covering worn by women out of doors. ...

Bookbinder's Cloth: Bookbinder's Cloth. A stiffly sized variety of cotton cloth, colored in every conceivable tint and ...

Bookfold: Bookfold. A piece of linen or cotton fabric containing 24 yards. ...

Bookmuslin: Bookmuslin, A glazed, starchy, transparent muslin, used for the covering of library books or lining of dresses; very similar to ...

Boots And Shoes: Boots And Shoes, From the earliest times a comfortable covering for the feet has been one of man's first necessities upon emerging from savagery. As he ...

Bootee: Bootee (Boot-Ee'). A trade-name for a half or short boot for women. ...

Boot-Powder: Boot-Powder. Massive talc, or soapstone reduced to powder, used to dust the inside of a new or tightly-fitting shoe, to facilitate drawing it on. ...

Boucla: Boucla (Boo-Clay' ). A style of weaving in which a rough, knotted surface is produced. These bunches or knots are formed in the ...

Bowing: Bowing (Bo'-Ing). The old process of preparing the fur for the body of a felt hat. Usually about 3 ounces of ...

Box Coat: Box Coat. Early in the present century an overcoat with a cape, intended for drivers or travelers on the ...

Box-Plait: Box-Plait. A double fold or plait, as on a shirt bosom or a woman's dress; a method of ...

Braid: Braid. A narrow textile band or tape formed by plaiting or knitting together several ...

Brandenburgs: Brandenburgs. [Named from Brandenbourg, in Germany] A variety of ornamental buttons formed somewhat in the shape of a long, narrow ...

Breakfast Shawl: Breakfast Shawl. A small, square checked shawl, folded diagonally and worn around the neck by women. ...

Breast Clout: Breast Clout. A bib. ...

Breech Clout: Breech Clout. A cloth of any description, covering the breech and loins of Indians, Africans and other uncivilized peoples. ...

Breeches: Breeches. A bifurcated garment formerly worn to cover but the hips and thighs; improperly used in the sense of ...

Bride: Bride. In lace making and needle work a loop, link or tie connecting two different parts of the work together. [...

Broad Lace: Broad Lace. A wool lace or embroidery made in bands about four inches wide and ...

Broadcloth: Broadcloth. A fine woolen cloth, commonly black, with a smooth, glossy surface, principally used in making men's ...

Brocade: Brocade. A fabric woven of any material or combination of colors, in which a design of flowers or foliage is ...

Brocaded: Brocaded. This term is used to describe a fabric upon the surface of which a figure of any kind is formed by the threads of the ...

Brocatel: Brocatel (Broc-A-Tel'). A coarse or inferior brocade or figured fabric, commonly made of ...

Broche: Broche (Bro-Sha'). [From French broach, to sew or stitch]. Broche properly means sewed or stitched; or, any style of weaving ...

Broche Shawl: Broche Shawl (Bro-Sha'). A variety made in imitation of genuine Cashmere shawls, distinguished by its cone ...

Brush Hat: Brush Hat. The old-fashioned brush hats were made of beaver fur, first made into a felt ...

Buckle: Buckle. A metal appliance for fastening together different articles and portions of dress. The origin of the buckle is clouded in a great ...

Buckram: Buckram. [Said by some etymologists to have been derived from bucca, a hole, from the fabric being woven loosely and open, and afterward ...

Buckskin: Buckskin. A soft kind of glove leather, yellowish or blue-gray in color, made originally by tanning deer-skins with oil and wood-smoke, ...

Buff: Buff. A kind of thick, uncolored leather, originally and properly made of the skin of the buffalo, whence its name, but since the extinction of this animal, made of ...

Buff Coat: Buff Coat. A military coat made of buff-leather, in favor at the time of the English civil wars. The buff ...

Buffing: Buffing. The operation of diminishing the thickness of a hide of leather by means of a currier's knife or splitting machine, for the purpose of increasing the ...

Bugle: Bugle (Bu'-Gle). A shiny, elongated glass bead, usually black, used for decorating female apparel. Bugle trimming consists of these glass ornaments attached to a ...

Bullion-Fringe: Bullion-Fringe. A fringe of thick twisted cords, such as will hang heavily, covered with fine gold or silver ...

Bunting: Bunting. A light loosely-woven single width worsted dress goods, woven both plain and laced. Bunting is also ...

Burlap: Burlap. A coarse, heavy material made of jute, flax, hemp or man-lila, and used for ...

Burl: Burl. To pick knots, loose threads, burrs, etc. from, as in finishing cloth. To cleanse cloth, as with fuller's earth or a similar ...

Buskin: Buskin (Bus'-Kin). [From bore's-skin, of which they were first made] A half-boot or shoe, strapped or laced to the ankle and the lower part of the leg, ...

Bustle: Bustle. Derived from busk, which in the 16th century is described as being a flexible strip of whalebone or other stiffened ...

Butcher's Linen: Butcher's Linen. A coarse and heavy bleached linen material, used principally as a backing for shirt ...

Butter-Cloth: Butter-Cloth. A thin and open unsized muslin, used by dairymen to wrap their rolls of butter; similar to cheezecloth. ...

Buttons: Buttons. [Fr. bouton, from bout, end, extremity, bud]. A catch of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of ...

Caddis: Caddis (Cad'-Is). A coarse serge. The variegated stuff worn by the Highlanders of Scotland. ...

Cadet Gloves: Cadet Gloves. See Gloves. ...

Calender: Calender. A machine consisting of two or more steel cylinders revolving very nearly in contact, between which is passed a woven fabric, ...

Calfskin: Calfskin. The best calfskin is tanned in France, with the liquor extracted from the bark of the evergreen oak, a species indigenous to that country. One single ...

Calico: Calico. The word calico has a queer origin. Many centuries ago the first monarch of the province of Malabar gave to one of his chiefs, as a reward for ...

Cambrasiue: Cambrasiue (Cam'-Bra-Zene). A name given to batiste and cambric of fine quality. ...

Cambric: Cambric. The town of Cambria, France, was long famous for its manufactures of fine muslins. Here in 1520, was first made a fine thin ...

Cameline: Cameline (Cam'-E-Lin). A fabric used centuries ago as a material for dress. It is commonly said to have been ...

Camel's Hair: Camel's Hair. The fiber known as Camel's hair comes from Southern Asiatic Russia, Tartary, and Africa; the quality from the latter ...

Camel's Hair Shawls: Camel's Hair Shawls. The cashmere shawl, which is made of the fine hair of the Cashmere goat, is ...

Camlet: Camlet. A rich fabric used for dress as early as the thirteenth century. It was more costly and finer than ...

Canton Flannel: Canton Flannel. A cotton cloth napped heavily on one side, used chiefly for under garments and bandages. ...

Canvas: Canvas. [From L. Cannabis, hemp] Originally canvas meant any coarse texture woven of hempen ...

Cap: Cap. See Hats and Caps; Baby Caps. ...

Cape: Cape. A circular covering for the shoulders and adjacent parts, either separate or attached to the top of a garment. Any short circular ...

Capote: Capote. A loose, roomy cloak for ladies, properly with a cape and hood, but without sleeves, made of light ...

Cappadine: Cappadine (Cap'-A-Din). A sort of silk flock taken from the upper part of the silkworm's cocoon after the true ...

Capuchin: Capuchin (Cap'-U-Chin). A large loose hood worn by the women of the 18th century; also a hooded cloak of the same ...

Cardigan Jacket: Cardigan Jacket. A coarse, heavy, rib-knitted worsted or cotton jacket for ...

Carding: Carding. The process of opening and combing wool, flax, hemp, ...

Cardinal: Cardinal. A member of the Sacred College, a body of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics who rank in dignity next to the Pope and act as his counselors in the government ...

Carpets: Carpets. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, ...

Cashmere: Cashmere (Kash'-Mere). [Also written cachemere (and with altered form and sense cassimere and kersymere); so-called because first ...

Cashmere Chevron: Cashmere Chevron. See Cote de Cheval. ...

Cashmere Shawls: Cashmere Shawls. [Also called India shawls, and sometimes erroneously termed camels' hair shawls] These wonderfully ...

Cassimere: Cassimere. [From Cashmere] A general term applied to a class of all wool cloths used for men's clothing, ...

Cassinette: Cassinette. [From Cashmere.'] A cloth for men's wear made with a cotton ...

Cassock: Cassock. A loose form of cloak or outer coat, particularly a military one, worn by men. Also a long clerical coat, buttoned over the ...

Castor: Castor. The beaver, and by extension the fur or hide of a beaver. The fur of the Castor beaver is used in the ...

Catgut: Catgut. A sort of linen canvas with wide interstices. The intestines of sheep, dried and twisted, used for ...

Celluloid: Celluloid. A combination of gun cotton and camphor. Its successful manufacture and introduction has ...

Challi: Challi (Shal'-I). A name originally given to a superior dress fabric of silk and ...

Chambray: Chambray, A variety of plain-woven ginghams, always of one color and without pattern. It is made of extra fine cotton yarns and stiffly ...

Channeling Machine: Channeling Machine. A machine for cutting the channel in the soles of shoes and boots, into which the ...

Chasuble: Chasuble (Chas'-U-Ble). A sleeveless vestment or coat, devoid of buttons or other fastening, and provided with ...

Check: Check. In textile fabrics a pattern of squares of alternate colors. Properly, a check ...

Cheese-Cloth: Cheese-Cloth. A thin, limp muslin, bleached or brown, used by dairy-men to cover their cheese. A variety of cheese-...

Chemise: Chemise (She-Mez'). [From Arabic camis, shirt] The innermost garment worn by women, anciently known as a ...

Chemisette: Chemisette. [Diminutive of chemise]. An article used by ladies for covering the neck, made of some light ...

Chenille: Chenille (She-Neel' ). [French for caterpillar.] A beautiful description of cord used for embroidery and decorative ...

Chenille Cloth: Chenille Cloth. A fabric made with a fringed silken thread used as a weft, in ...

Cheviot: Cheviot. A twill-woven, napped woolen cloth, originally made from the wool ...

Cheviot Shirting: Cheviot Shirting. A term which formerly signified a cotton fabric free from starch or dressing, but ...

Chiffon: Chiffon (Shif'-On. French pron. she-fon'). A variety of thin transparent silk gauze woven so fine and ...

Chijimi: Chijimi (Chi-Je'-Ma). A variety of Japanese drapery siik, dyed in fast colors; in width thirty inches. ...

China Silk: China Silk. A term applied to the plain silks woven in China, Japan and India on the primitive hand looms of those countries. The warp ...

Chinchilla: Chinchilla. The Indian name for a squirrel-like animal found in the mountains of South America. The ancient Peruivans were accustomed to employ the ...

Chine Sheen: Chine Sheen;. (French Pron she-na'). [From the Fr. chiner, color, dye] A term applied to the fabrics in which the warp is dyed in ...

Chintz: Chintz (Hindoo Chhint, spotted). Cotton cloth printed with flowers or other patterns of bright ...

Chudder: Chudder. [From Hindoo chaddar, mantle, shawl]. The name given in Europe to the plain shawls of ...

Cladding: Cladding. [From clad, to clothe]. A word sometimes used for clothes and clothing. ...

Claith: Claith. A Scotch word for cloth. ...

Clamp-Dyeing: Clamp-Dyeing. See Flags. ...

Clerk: Clerk. [From Latin clericus, clergyman, priest, whence our words clerical, clergy, ecclesiastic, clerk, etc]. In its original sense a learned man; a man of letters; ...

Clan Tartans: Clan Tartans. [It. tartantanna, linsey-woolsey, or cloth of different materials and ...

Clay Worsted: Clay Worsted. A variety of flat-twilled worsted woven with a twill similar to that of ...

Cloaks: Cloaks. [Originally spelled clokke and until recently cloke. The word is derived from clock, which piece of mechanism, when first made, ...

Clock: Clock. [From Ang.-Sax. clokke, a time-piece, which, in its original form, was bell-shaped]. A term applied first in 1543 to a bell-shaped ornament or flower upon ...

Cloth: Cloth, [Formerly cloath, origin uncertain] A fabric or texture of wool or hair, or of ...

Clothes: Clothes. Garments for the human body. Dress; vestments; raiment; vesture; clothing; personal attire. According ...

Clothier: Clothier. A retail dealer in ready-made clothes for men; a clothing merchant. Merchants sold ...

Cloth Measure: Cloth Measure. A standard system formerly employed for measuring the length and surface of cloth sold by the ...

Cloth Of Gold: Cloth Of Gold. A splendid fabric of very ancient origin, first mentioned in Deuteronomy XXXIX, 3: And they did beat the gold ...

Coal Tar Colors: Coal Tar Colors. A name given to a numerous class of colors derived from coal tar by various complex chemical methods. From ...

Coat: Coat. A principal outer garment; any covering for the body. Specifically an outer garment worn by men, covering the upper part of the body....

Coburg: Coburg. A thin dress fabric woven of worsted and cotton, ...

Cochineal: Cochineal (Kotch'-I-Neal). A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of a species of insects. It colors a brilliant crimson, which can ...

Cocked Hat: Cocked Hat. A hat turned up evenly on three sides, such as naval and military officers wear on full-dress occasions. Such hats were in ...

Cockle: Cockle. [Derived from cockle-shell, which is a variety having wrinkles or crimps over its surface] A term in trade signifying to pucker or contract into wrinkles; ...

Cocoa Fibre: Cocoa Fibre. Cocoa matting and cocoa carpeting are made of what is. technically called coir, which is the ...

Coiffure: Coiffure (Koif'-Ur; . French Pron kwo'-fur). A head-dress; the manner of arranging or dressing the hair. ...

Collar: Collar. [From Latin collum, the neck] Originally a peculiar badge worn around the neck by Knights of different orders. It consisted of a gold chain, enameled, etc.,...

Collars And Cuffs: Collars And Cuffs. Articles of attire for both men and women, made usually of linen, and starched. The quality is denoted by ...

Colors: Colors. In its relation to textiles, color is that quality or appearance of a fabric which is perceived by the eye alone independently of ...

Combing Wool: Combing Wool. See Wool, Worsteds. ...

Comforts: Comforts. The history of the manufacture of comforts, or bed comfortables as they were ...

Commission Merchant: Commission Merchant. An individual or firm who sells goods on a per cent, either in his own name or in the name of the foreign or domestic ...

Composition Cloth: Composition Cloth. A material made from long flax, dressed with a chemical which renders it perfectly waterproof ; used for ...

Convent Cloth: Convent Cloth; An Extremely Light Weight Dress Fabric, with a silk ...

Cony Fur: Cony Fur (Co'-Ny). The fur of rabbits and other burrowing animals, used for making felt for hats, and also in the ...

Cope: Cope. A large, loose outer garment; a cloak; a mantle. A large mantle of silk or ...

Cordage And Twines: Cordage And Twines. Cordage is a general term for all kinds of hemp rope, from cables 12 inches in ...

Corded Fabrics: Corded Fabrics. A general term used in trade to signify reps, Bedford and whipcord, pipecord, ...

Cordovan: Cordovan (Cor'-Do-Van). [From Cordova, a. city of Spain, where it was first made] Leather made from the hides of horses. Also called cord-wain. ...

Corduroy: Corduroy (Cor-Du-Roi'). [French cor du roi, royal cord or King's cord ]. A heavy cotton material, corded or ribbed on the surface. It ...

Cork: Cork. A species of oak, growing in the south of Europe, especially in Spain and Portugal and in the north of Africa, having a thick, rough bark, for the sake of ...

Cork Leather: Cork Leather. A variety formed of two sheets of leather with a thin layer of cork between them, the whole being glued and pressed ...

Corkscrew Worsted: Corkscrew Worsted. [So-called from its fancied resemblance to the twists of a corkscrew] A particular weave which has for several years been extensively ...

Corset: Corset. [French corse, body; Latin corsetus, a close-fitting garment] A close-fitting waist, usually made of ...

Corset Jean: Corset Jean. A double-fold, calendered cotton drilling, used principally in the ...

Cote De Cheval: Cote De Cheval (Cote De Chee'-Val). A light-weight wool dress fabric, with a ...

Cotton: Cotton. Among all the materials which the skill of man converts into comfortable and elegant clothing, that which appears to be the most extensively useful, though ...

Carding Of Cotton: Carding Of Cotton is the process of disentangling and arranging in parallel rows the fibres of the cotton so as to facilitate ...

Cotton Flannel: Cotton Flannel. See Canton Flannel. ...

Cotton Damask: Cotton Damask. A material woven in different colors, used for curtains and ...

Cotton Rep: Cotton Rep. A heavy, corded cotton cloth used for the lining of curtains, etc. ...

Cotton Wadding: Cotton Wadding. See Wadding. ...

Cotton Velvet: Cotton Velvet. See Velveteen. ...

Cottonade: Cottonade. A coarse heavy variety of cotton cloth, woven plain or twilled, used for men's cheap clothing. Of ...

Countermand: Countermand. [Latin contra, against, mandare, command]. An order in direct opposition to an order previously given, thereby annulling it and forbidding its ...

Counterpane: Counterpane. [A corruption of French counterpoint, point against point, in allusion to the panes or squares of which bed covers were often composed] The top ...

Coventry Blue: Coventry Blue. Thread principally used for purposes of embroidery,of a vivid blue, very popular in ...

Coverlet: Coverlet. Quilt, coverlid, coverlet, counterpoint and counterpane at different times have been used to ...

Cowl: Cowl. A hood attached to a gown or robe, and admitting of being drawn over the head or of being worn hanging on the ...

Crape: Crape. [The same word as French crepe, formerly spelled crespe, from Latin crespus, crisp, curled, frizzled] A thin, semi-transparent ...

Crape Cloth: Crape Cloth. An all-wool dress fabric, dyed in all colors....

Crash: Crash. A general term used to denote a strong coarse linen fabric; chiefly used for toweling, tarpaulins, packing,...

Cravat: Cravat. [From German crabat] A piece of folded silk, satin or other material worn about the neck, generally ...

Cravenette: Cravenette (Crav-En-Et'). A system of water-proofing woolen fabrics. It is applied to a large variety of materials, which are used in the ...

Crazy-Quilt: Crazy-Quilt. A kind of patch-work quilt, in which irregular pieces of silk and other material are applied ...

Crepe De Chine: Crepe De Chine (Crape De Sheen). A variety of extremely thin and highly lustrous crape dress-...

Crepe-Lisse: Crepe-Lisse (Crape-Leece). A fine thin silk material, plain woven; used for women's ruching, dresses, etc. [...

Crepon: Crepon (Crep'-On Or Cre-Pon'). A dress fabric resembling crape but not so thin and ...

Cretonne: Cretonne (Cre-Ton'). [Derived from the name of the first maker, M. Cretonne, of Paris]. Originally a strong white fabric of hempen ...

Crewel: Crewel. [From German clew, a ball of thread]. A kind of fine worsted yarn, used in ...

Cricket Flannel: Cricket Flannel. See Flannel. ...

Crinoline: Crinoline. [Fr. crinoline, hair cloth, from Latin crinis, hair and linum, linen]. When first invented ...

Crofting: Crofting, The process of bleaching linen by exposure to the air on grass. This method in Ireland and ...

Crown Lining: Crown Lining. Fine crinoline or stiff tarlatan, used by milliners for lining the crowns of ladies' ...

Curtains: Curtains. See Holland, Lace Curtains. ...

Cut Cashmere: Cut Cashmere. A variety of twilled, double fold dress goods, distinguished by the presence of fine sunken ...

Damask: Damask. A textile fabric woven in elaborate patterns, of various designs, as flowers, leaves, foliage, etc., ...

Damasked: Damasked. Fabrics ornamented on the surface with flowers or other patterns having a running figure, produced by weaving and not by ...

Damasse: Damasse (Da-Ma-Sa'). Woven with a rich pattern, as of flowers or large running figures: said of certain silks for ladies' wear. ...

Damassin: Damassin (Dam'-A-Sin). A kind of damask with gold and silver flowers woven in the warp and woof; an ornamental ...

Darning Needles: Darning Needles. A long needle with a large eye, used for darning with yarn or heavy ...

De Beige: De Beige (De-Bazh'). See Beige. ...

Delaine: Delaine (De-Lane'). [French mousseline de laine, muslin of wool]. An expressive title which signifies fully what ...

Demi-Castor: Demi-Castor. An inferior quality of beaver fur ; hence, a hat made of beaver of this quality. ...

Denim: Denim. [A trade name; origin unknown]. A coarse cotton twilled material used for men's overalls and working ...

Designing: Designing. A figure or representation of some character must be originated and drawn suited to every class of cloth that is woven. This ...

Diagonal: Diagonal. A term introduced in the United States in the year 1875 denoting a variety of worsteds used in the manufacture of men's ...

Diaper: Diaper. In this term we have an example of a fabric possessed of a proud ancestry, in its time second to none in the family of splendid ...

Diced: Diced. A term descriptive of a pattern woven in cubes or squares -that is, with the sides of the cubes or squares shaded by the run of the ...

Dickey: Dickey. A separate shirt-front worn over the breast in place of a shirt, or to hide a shirt not fit to be seen. These were at one time ...

Dimity: Dimity (Dim-' I-Ty). [Supposed by early authorities to have been derived from Damietta, Egypt, where the fabric was once manufactured of ...

Discharging: Discharging. A method employed in calico and silk printing for the purpose of imprinting a pattern upon a ...

Discount: Discount. A part deducted from the count; hence in trade an allowance or deduction, generally of so much per cent., made for prepayment or prompt payment of a ...

Distaff: Distaff. The staff or stick which holds the carded material in hand spinning. Generally it was a stick about 3 feet long ...

Ditto: Ditto. [From Italian ditto, meaning that which has been said, Latin dictum, said] A duplicate. The same thing. Abbreviated do, and is also expressed by two inverted ...

Dobby-Machine: Dobby-Machine. A loom built purposely for weaving fancy patterns, constructed on a principle similar to ...

Doeskin: Doeskin. [So called from the fancied resemblance of the fabric to the skin of a doe, on account of its softness and pliability]. A ...

Doe; Cheap: Doe; Cheap. [Early English dogge cheape and dog chepe, from dog, as a type of worthlessness]. Very cheap; in little estimation. ...

Dogskin: Dogskin. A term applied for the purpose of deception to a variety of sheepskin leather. It is somewhat thicker than the leather of which ...

Dolly Varden: Dolly Varden. [From Dolly Varden, a character in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge.] A gay-flowered calico worn from 1865 to ...

Dolman: Dolman. [From Turkish dalama, a long robe open in front, worn by the Turks over their outer garments]. A style of ladies' winter wrap, characterized by a hanging ...

Domet: Domet. A soft, loosely woven material similar in construction to flannel, napped slightly upon either side. ...

Donsky: Donsky. [Russian Donskoi, of the river Don]. A variety of Russian wool of coarse quality introduced into English and American woolen ...

Dornick: Dornick. A term now used for stout linen cloth, especially checkered table linen ...

Double-Dyeing: Double-Dyeing. A method of dyeing mixed woolen and cotton goods, by which the ...

Double-Faced: Double-Faced. Cloth having both surfaces finished, so that either may be used as the right side. ...

Doublet: Doublet. An outer body-garment such as was worn by men from about the end of the fifteenth century until the middle of the seventeenth ...

Dowlas: Dowlas (Dow' Las). Like the names of many other cloths, dowlas is from a town-name, said to be from Doullens, a town in the department of Somme, France. Until the ...

Down: Down. The fine, soft covering of fowls under the feathers, particularly that of swans, ducks, geese, and other water-fowls. ...

Doyley: Doyley. [Also spelled doi'-ley. Said to be so called from the name of its first maker, Sir Jno. D'Oyley] A fringed napkin, made of ...

Drap De Alma: Drap De Alma (Drap-De A'L-Ma). A fine close, flat-twilled dress fabric of wool, or ...

Drap De Te: Drap De Te (Drah-De-Ta'). A species of worsted dress goods, woven in fine longitudinal cords, sometimes ...

Draper: Draper. Drap is a French word meaning cloth, and draper in England, and drapier in France are the terms used in ...

Drapery: Drapery. The occupation of a draper; the trade of making or of selling cloth. Cloth or ...

Drap Sanglier: Drap Sanglier (Drap San'-Glier). A loosely-made, all-wool French dress fabric, 44 ...

Drawing-Frame: Drawing-Frame. A machine in which the slivers of cotton, wool, etc., from the ...

Drawn-Work: Drawn-Work. A kind of ornamental work done in tidies, towels, etc., by cutting out, pulling out, or drawing to one side some of the threads of the ...

Dress: Dress. A garment or the assemblage of garments used as a covering for the body or for its adornment; clothes;...

Drilling: Drilling. [German drillich (from drei, three), a 3-cord fabric] A twilled material of either linen or ...

Drugget: Drugget. [From French droguet, trash]. A large square rug or mat, felted or woven, either of one color or printed on one side, and used as ...

Drummer: Drummer. A commercial traveler who is an agent or representative of a manufacturer, importer or other wholesale dealer who procures and transmits orders for the ...

Dry Goods: Dry Goods. Textile fabrics, and related articles of trade; as, cloth, shawls, wraps, ready-made garments, ...

Duck: Duck. [From Swed. duk, cloth] A strong linen fabric, plain-woven, without ...

Due-Bill: Due-Bill. A brief written acknowledgment of indebtedness differing from a promissory note in not being payable to order or transferable by mere indorsement. ...

Dundee Goods: Dundee Goods. A term applied to a large class of coarse fabrics of flax, hemp and ...

Dupion: Dupion (Du'Pion). A double cocoon formed by two silk worms spinning together. The coarse ...

Dyeing: Dyeing. The art of coloring fabrics by immersion in a properly prepared bath. The matters used for dyeing are obtained from vegetables, animals and minerals, and ...

Ec'Ru: Ec'Ru (Eck'-Ru). [French ecru, raw or unbleached when applied to linen, silk or other ...

Edging: Edging. Narrow lace or embroidery especially made for trimming frills and parts of ...

Egyptian Cotton: Egyptian Cotton. Cotton raised in Egypt, of a yellowish color and superior quality, not as fine and silky as the Sea Island ...

Eider-Down: Eider-Down. Down or soft feathers of the eider-duck, such as the bird plucks from ...

Eiderdown Cloth: Eiderdown Cloth. A heavy-napped woolen fabric invented in 1882, by Mr. Robert Ward, of Philadelphia, and extensively used in the ...

Elastic Web: Elastic Web. A material for suspenders, garters, etc., made in bands from half an inch to twelve inches in width. The slender ...

Electoral Cloth Or Biretz: Electoral Cloth Or Biretz. A double-faced dress fabric woven ...

Ell: Ell. A long measure, chiefly used for cloth, of different lengths in different countries. The English ell, not yet ...

Embossed Velvet: Embossed Velvet. See Velvet. ...

Embossed Felt: Embossed Felt. An upholstering material; used for table covers, borders, friezes, or dados for applique purposes. Ordinary thick ...

Embroidery: Embroidery. The art of working with the needle flowers, leaves, vines and other forms, upon wool, ...

Embroidery Silk: Embroidery Silk. The fancy colors are usually put up 10 yards to a spool, each spool being equal to four ordinary cards or ...

Empress Cloth: Empress Cloth. [So called on account of the weave having been originated for, and worn first by the Empress Eugenia, of France]. A variety of ...

Empress Gauze: Empress Gauze. A fine, transparent stuff, made of silk, or silk and linen, and ...

Epingle: Epingle (Ep'In-Gle). [French epingle, a slender pin wire] A descriptive term for a variety of thin silk, woven with ...

Equestrian Tights: Equestrian Tights. A woman's knit undergarments, consisting of drawers and stockings combined, reaching to the ...

Ermine: Ermine. A small quadruped inhabiting the northern regions of Europe and America. The fur of the animal is snow white, with the tip of the ...

Estamene: Estamene (Es'-Ta-Mene'). An all-wool French dress fabric woven similar to ...

Estamin: Estamin (Es-Tam'-In). A woolen stuff made in Prussia, used for sack cloth, ...

Etamine: Etamine (Et'-A-Mine). A coarse description of woolen bunting or canvas, of a more or less transparent ...

Everlasting: Everlasting. A variety of very durable white cotton edging, distinguished by being made in rows of ...

Fabric: Fabric. [From Latin fabricus, a work shop] A woven or felted cloth of any material or style of weaving; ...

Factory: Factory. A term which originally implied the residence of factors; that is, agents or brokers whose duty was to buy or sell goods for merchants who resided ...

Factory Cotton: Factory Cotton. Unbleached cotton muslin, as opposed to bleached or imported fabrics; called also ...

Factory Yarn: Factory Yarn. Coarse 2-ply or 3-ply unscoured woolen yarn, or yarn in the grease. It is usually ...

Fagoting: Fagoting (Fag'-Ot-Ing). In embroidery, an operation in which a number of threads in the material are drawn out, and a small bunch ...

Faille: Faille (Fail). Originally a hood covering the face, worn by French nuns of certain orders. In the 16th century the term was adopted to ...

False Hair: False Hair, See Hair. ...

Fans: Fans. [From Latin vannus, an apparatus for blowing the chaff from grain] A hand article for cooling the face and person by agitating the air....

Farmer's Satin: Farmer's Satin. A variety of lining for men's coats, made with cotton chain and a woolen weft, ...

Fashion: Fashion. A term which admits as little of an exact definition as of being referred to as an intelligent principle. The French term it la mode. In every age and in ...

Fayetta: Fayetta (Fa-Yet'-A). A variety of lightweight, double-fold dress silk, ...

Featherbone: Featherbone. A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls; patented in 1882. The quills are slit into ...

Feather Cloth: Feather Cloth. A mixture of cloth and feathers woven together, the cloth being ...

Feathers: Feathers. [Literally, that which flutters; German feder, Dutch veder] Feathers as ornaments were not used by civilized people until the close of the 13th century ...

Feather-Stitch: Feather-Stitch. A stitch used in embroidery, producing a partial imitation of feathers by small ...

Felt: Felt. Woolen cloth united without weaving. The word felt appears to have signified at a ...

Fiber: Fiber. [From Latin filum, a thread, whence also the words file and filament] A ...

Fiberlia: Fiberlia [Fi-Ber'-Lia]. A recently introduced flax fibre made from the stalk of American flax, which can be combined with ...

Fichu: Fichu (Fe'-Shu). [French for ladies' neckerchief.\ A triangular piece of lace worn around the neck instead of a ...

Filament: Filament. A fine, untwisted thread; a separate fiber of any vegetable or animal ...

Filature: Filature. A reel for drawing silk off from the cocoons; an establishment for reeling silk. Producers rarely reel ...

Filibeg: Filibeg. The Scotch kilt in its primitive form, consisting of one piece of cloth, covering the whole body, and ...

Filoselle: Filoselle (Fil-O-Zel'). A loose, slackly-twisted silk thread used in fine-art needlework. It is put up in ...

Filling: Filling. The woof or weft in weaving. ...

Fish Hooks: Fish Hooks. An article to be found in nearly every well-selected stock of notions, and one, also, which suggests the wonderful strides made by American ...

Flags: Flags. It is probable that almost as soon as men began to collect together for common purposes some kind of conspicuous object was used, as the symbol of a common ...

Flannel: Flannel. [From Welch gwlanen; in the Middle Ages known as flannella and flannen] Wales appears to have been the home of flannels, and this one ...

Flannellette: Flannellette (Flan-El-Et'). A soft loose-woven cotton fabric, white, self-colored, or woven in stripes or ...

Flat Goods: Flat Goods. A term used to designate woolen or cotton knitted underwear as distinguished from ...

Flax: Flax. [The common name for the plants of the genus Linnum] The term flax is employed at once to denote the fiber so called, and the plant ...

Fleece: Fleece. The coat of wool that covers a sheep, or that is shorn from a sheep at one time. In commerce, wools are ...

Fleur-De-Lis: Fleur-De-Lis (Fleur-De-Lee'). [From French fleur-de-lis, flower of the lily] A pattern in weaving representing the flower of the ...

Floret-Silk: Floret-Silk. In silk manufacturing, a yarn spun from the first and purest of the waste, and of ...

Floretta: Floretta (Flo-Ret'-A). Floss-silk. ...

Floss-Silk: Floss-Silk, An embroidery-thread, made of silk fiber ...

Fold: Fold. A double or lap of cloth, of any description. All dress silks are put up in folds 1 1/4 yards long (1 ...

Fondu: Fondu (Fon-Du'). Softened, blended; denoting a style in which colors are so applied as to pass insensibly into each other through delicate ...

Foolscap: Foolscap. A writing paper, usually folded, varying in size from 12x15 to 12 1/2 x l6 inches; so called from its former watermark, the ...

Foot: Foot. A unit of length, originally the length of a man's foot. The English foot, which is in use in the United States, contains 12 inches. The feet in use in ...

Foot-Glove: Foot-Glove. A heavy woolen stocking worn in northern regions over the shoes while riding; a warm muffler ...

Foot-Sheet: Foot-Sheet. A cloth spread over the chair and floor for a person to sit upon, while the toilet is being made....

Forwarder: Forwarder. An individual or a firm who ships or sends forward goods for others to their destination by the instrumentality of third persons. Neither a consignor ...

Foulard: Foulard (Fou-Lard'). A term which at first denoted a thin gauze French riband. At present foulard silk is a soft, ...

Four-In-Hand: Four-In-Hand. A style of neckwear for men distinguished by being wider a tone end than at the other, which when tied presents the appearance and form of a ...

Fox: Fox. To cover the upper of a shoe with ornamental leather; also to repair a shoe by renewing the front upper-leather. ...

French Cambric: French Cambric. A very fine variety of linen or cotton cambric used for ...

French Merino: French Merino. An extremely fine-twilled woolen cloth, made from the wool of ...

French Quilting: French Quilting. Same as pique (which see.) ...

French Twill: French Twill. A variety of French Merino of inferior fineness but of great durability. ...

Frieze: Frieze (Freez). [So called from having been first made in ancient Friesland, the most northerly province of Holland] A heavy, shaggy, ...

Fringe: Fringe. An ornamental bordering formed of short lengths of thread, whether loose or twisted, variously arranged and combined, projecting ...

Frock: Frock. [From Fr.froc, a monk's cowl or habit] Originally a long coat with large sleeves, ...

Frock-Coat: Frock-Coat. A body-coat for men, usually double-breasted and with a full skirt; opposed to ...

Frocking: Frocking. A fabric suitable for making men's work-frocks; specifically coarse jean or drill. ...

Frog: Frog. An ornamental fastening for the front of men's coats and ladies' cloaks and waists, usually made of metal or braiding, and consisting ...

Frontal: Frontal. An ornamental band for the hair, worn by women. ...

Fugitive Colors: Fugitive Colors. Those colors which fade, or are more or less destroyed by the action of light, air, and atmospheric heat and ...

Fuller's-Earth: Fuller's-Earth. A species of clay, used by fullers to take grease out of cloth before they apply the soap. When good it has a ...

Fulling: Fulling. The process of condensing a previously formed fabric, causing it to assume a stronger and firmer body; especially applied to ...

Fulling' Mill: Fulling' Mill. A power-machine for fulling and felting woven fabrics, to improve their texture by ...

Full Regular: Full Regular. A method of seaming knitted hose, underwear or gloves, by which the edges of the web are ...

Fur: Fur. Hair, wool, and fur are slender filaments or thread-like fibers issuing out of the pores ...

Fur Beaver: Fur Beaver. A term applied in recent years to a variety of heavy, napped woolen cloth used exclusively for men's fine overcoats. The ...

Furbelow: Furbelow (Fur'-Be-Low). [From fur and below] A puffed and puckered adornment on a dress or ...

Fustian: Fustian (Fus'-Tyan). [From Fustat, a suburb of Cario, Egypt, whence the stuff first came] In present use a stout, twilled ...

Fuzz: Fuzz. Fine downy particles, as the loose fibres on the surface of cloth, or separated from it by friction. ...

Gaiter: Gaiter. [From Fr. guetre, a cloth covering for the ankle and upper portion of the foot] Originally a kind of shoe, ...

Galligaskins: Galligaskins (Gal-I-Gas'-Kins). Leather guards worn on the legs by sportsmen and equestrians. Formerly, in the 16th century the term was applied to a ...

Galloon: Galloon (Gal-Oon'). [From It. gallone, finery,] Originally, worsted lace, especially a closely-woven lace like ...

Galoshes: Galoshes (Ga-Loshes'). [From Sp. galocha, wooden shoe] A kind of clog or patten worn in the middle ages as a protection against wet, and common, because of the ...

Gambroon: Gambroon. A twilled cloth of worsted and cotton or linen ...

Garment: Garment. An article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, or a wrap. ...

Garter: Garter. An elastic band or other fastening to keep the stocking in place on the leg; more particularly a band passing around the leg either ...

Gauntlet: Gauntlet. Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries, the metal covering for the hand, attached to the iron armor worn by warriors, was called the gauntlet.&...

Gassing: Gassing. The process by which cloth that is to be finished with a smooth surface, as well as lace and yarns, is ...

Gassing-Frame: Gassing-Frame. An apparatus in which yarns are run off from one bobbin to another and carried through gas flames in the operation of ...

Gauze: Gauze. [Said to have been named after the place of its origin, Gaza, in Palestine, a city known from ancient days as an important cloth ...

Genappe: Genappe (Je-Nap'). [From Genappe, Belgium, where first produced] A worsted yarn which, because of its ...

Germantown Yarn: Germantown Yarn. [From having been first made at Germantown, Pa., which city at present constitutes the 22nd ward of Philadelphia,] A coarse heavy woolen ...

German Knitting Worsted: German Knitting Worsted. A strong durable yarn made of 'worsted, that is, ...

Gimp: Gimp. [From Fr. guipure, to whip round with silk] A flat trimming made by twisting silk or ...

Gimped Embroidery: Gimped Embroidery. A kind of raised embroidery made with a padding of inferior material which ...

Gingham: Gingham. [A term derived from the town of its early manufacture, Guinghamp, France, in the department of Cotes-du-Nord]. A close, ...

Girdle: Girdle. The ancient use of the girdle was to confine to the waist the long flowing garments then worn, and in some countries is still in ...

Glace: Glace (Gla-Sa'). [From Fr. glace, iced, glazed]. In trade a term signifying fabrics or articles with a glossy, lustrous finish. Changeable ...

Glass Cloth: Glass Cloth. A fine linen fabric, usually woven with a slight open pattern of colored threads, like ...

Glassing: Glassing. A method of finishing fine kid leather, to produce a permanent gloss, by rubbing it with a ball of polished plate-glass. ...

Glazing: Glazing. See Calender. ...

Glengarry Cap: Glengarry Cap. [So named from Glengarry, a valley in Scotland]. A Scotch cap of wool, either woven in ...

Gloria: Gloria. A fabric the warp of which is silk and the weft either of ...

Glove: Glove. The antiquity of gloves is very great. They have been known and worn from the remote age of the world, and doubtless antedate history, for the earliest ...

Gobelin Dress Fabric: Gobelin Dress Fabric. A kind of large brocade, woven of wool and silk ...

Gossamer: Gossamer (Goz'-A-Mer). [A contraction of Godsummer, a name given by our superstitious ancestry to the fine filmy cobwebs which float in the air in ...

Gown: Gown. [From Welsh gwn, signifying that which is stitched] In a general sense the long habit of a man dedicated to acts of peace, as divinity,...

Grain: Grain. The side of leather from which the hair has been removed, showing the fibrous texture, in contradistinction from the flesh side....

Grain Leather: Grain Leather. Tanned and dressed horsehides, goatskins, etc., blacked on the grain side, used in the ...

Grass-Bleaching: Grass-Bleaching. The process of bleaching cotton and linen fabrics by ...

Grass-Cloth: Grass-Cloth. A heavy, buff-colored cotton muslin, used at present for children's ...

Grass-Embroidery: Grass-Embroidery. A variety made by several tribes of American Indians, the chief material for which is dried grass, or fibrous leaves resembling grass....

Grass-Linen: Grass-Linen. A fine grass-cloth. ...

Grassing: Grassing. The exposing of linen cloth in fields to the influence of air, moisture and sunlight for the purpose ...

Grenadine: Grenadine (Gren-A-Dene'). [From French grenadine, wrought silk for making lace] A dress ...

Grille: Grille (Gre-Lya'). [From French grille, a grating] In lace, having a background consisting of bars or brides crossing open spaces; also ...

Grogram: Grogram (Grog'-Gram). A coarse fabric formerly in use, made originally of silk and ...

Gros: Gros (Gro). Thick; strong. A textile fabric stronger or heavier than others of the same material. ...

Gros Des Indus: Gros Des Indus. A silk fabric having a stripe, more or less broad,either of the same or a different color,...

Gros Des Naples: Gros Des Naples. A stout, plain-woven silk dress fabric, woven of or-ganzine ...

Gros Des Tours: Gros Des Tours. A heavy corded black silk, used for mourning purposes. ...

Gros-Grain: Gros-Grain (Gro'-Grain). [From gros, thick, and grain, grain, showing conclusively the origin of the word and ...

Guernsey: Guernsey (Gern'-Sy). [Named from having been first worn by the sailors inhabiting the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel]. A close-fitting, knitted ...

Guipure: Guipure (Ge-Pure'). A French word signifying vellum lace. Vellum means parchment, and ...

Gunny: Gunny. A strong and extremely coarse cloth manufactured chiefly in Bengal from jute, but to some extent in ...

Gutta-Percha: Gutta-Percha. [From Malaygutta, gum, and percha, the island from whence it was first obtained. The island is now known as Sumatra]. The juice of an evergreen ...

Gypsy Cloth: Gypsy Cloth. A heavy-napped cotton cloth, used in the manufacture of ...

Habberdasher: Habberdasher. [A term which meant originally peddlers' wares, or the contents of a peddler's bag; derived from German Habtihrdas, Have you ...

Habiliment: Habiliment. A garment; clothing; dress; vestment. Usually in the plural: as, fashionable habiliments. ...

Habit: Habit. External dress; particularly, the costume or dress regularly worn, or appropriate for a particular occassion, use, or vocation. Also,...

Hair Cloth: Hair Cloth. A fabric woven of the hair of horses' tails, used for sofa coverings, seatings, etc., and for stiffening of ladies' ...

Hair Manufacture: Hair Manufacture. The various uses to which hair of different sorts is applied are familiar to every one. To prepare the curled hair for stuffing ...

Hair-Pin: Hair-Pin. A wire pin used to support braids and plaits of hair, or maintain the head-dress, of whatever ...

Hair Net: Hair Net. A silk net, confined to an oval shape by rubber cord, used by women to keep up the back hair. Nets were ...

Hammer Cloth: Hammer Cloth. [A corruption of hamper cloth] In early English days when coaches were first introduced, frugal Englishmen who lived ...

Hammock: Hammock. [From Sp. hamaca, a kind of hanging bed or mat. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: A great many Indians in canoes came to the ...

Handkerchief: Handkerchief. The most ancient handkerchief was merely a bit of silk tissue, first used centuries ago by ...

Hank: Hank. A skein or coil of yarn or thread. More particularly a definite length of ...

Haslock: Haslock (Haz'-Lok). The lock of wool that grows on the halse or throat of a sheep; hence the finest quality of wool. Also called ...

Hassock: Hassock. [From hassock, a bushy bunch of grass] A thick hard cushion used as a foot stool. ...

Hat-Block: Hat-Block. The block or mold on which a hat is shaped. It consists several pieces of wood or metal fastened together, preserving the general outline of the ...

Hat-Body: Hat-Body. The unshaped or partly shaped piece of felt from which a hat is to be formed. ...

Hats And Caps: Hats And Caps. There is but little relating to hat-making recorded in history, although their partial use may be traced back to the time of ancient Greece, ...

Hatching: Hatching. In embroidering and weaving, the art of disposing threads so as to give the effect of shading according to the shape and ...

Haute-Lisse: Haute-Lisse (Haute-Lese). [F. haute, high; lisse, warp] In tapestry ...

Havelock: Havelock (Hav'-Lock). [Named after the English general, Henry Havelock] A cover for soldier's cap, made of light washable material, with a ...

Haversack: Haversack. [From Ger. hafer, oats, and sack, sack] A bag used for holding the food that a soldier carries on his person. It is carried ...

Heckle: Heckle. The operation of drawing flax or hemp through rough teeth to separate the fiber ...

Helix: Helix. A term used in needle-making, with reference to the manner in which the eye is finished. The best qualities of ...

Hemp: Hemp. A valuable plant possessing properties similar to flax and jute, supposed to be a native of India, but long ...

Hemstitch: Hemstitch. The ornamental edging in linen and cotton fabrics, particularly ...

Henrietta: Henrietta. [Named in honor of the gay and brilliant Henrietta Maria, queen of England in 1624] A dress fabric,...

Herringbone: Herringbone. A style of twill-weaving, so called from its resemblance to the backbone of a herring. The ...

Hickory Check: Hickory Check. A particular style of coarse shirting, in which the checks are woven small and square, and of but two ...

Hindoo Silk: Hindoo Silk. See Mysore, China Silk. ...

Hogskin: Hogskin. Leather made of the hides of hogs, having a grained and minutely punctured surface, caused by the large pores; used for saddles (generally under the name ...

Holland: Holland. A term signifying unbleached linen cloth, made in many European countries, but especially in Scotland. ...

Home Weaving: Home Weaving. The operations of spinning and weaving carried on in dwellings, as distinguished from ...

Honeycomb: Honeycomb. An ornamental weave produced in cotton and linen canvas by drawing the ...

Hood: Hood. [From Anglo-saxon hod, head; whence comes also our word hat] Properly a covering for the head, of soft or flexible material, but sometimes worn as an ornament ...

Hook And Eye: Hook And Eye. A metallic fastening for garments, consisting of a hook, commonly made of flattened wire bent to the required shape, and an eye of the same ...

Hoopskirt: Hoopskirt. An article of feminine apparel evolved from the farthingale of the sixteenth century. The ancient farthingales were made of hoops of ...

Hose: Hose. According to the most reliable authority the use of hose or leg-gins, comprising in one piece all the leg-covering below the waist, ...

Hosier: Hosier (Ho'-Zher). Formerly the term hosier was applied to tailors who sold men's garments ready-made. In its more modern use hosier has been restricted in its ...

Hosiery And Knit Goods: Hosiery And Knit Goods. Under this head is embraced a wide range of manufactured textiles, which are classed together more on account of their ...

Housewife's Cloth: Housewife's Cloth. A linen cloth of medium quality, between fine and coarse, for family uses. It is in ...

Huckaback: Huckaback (Huck'-A-Back). [A corruption of huckster-back, which in early times signified any sort of pedler's ware. Often shortened to huck.\ A ...

Illusion: Illusion. A thin and very transparent kind of tulle; silk bobbinet. [See ...

Imports: Imports. Goods brought to this from a foreign country. Importations into the United States can be made only at ports of entry constituted by law. All goods so ...

Inca: Inca. [From Inca the name of the prince who governed Peru, S. A., previous to the Spanish conquest] A term given about 1850 to several varieties of ...

India Linon: India Linon. [French linen] A variety of clear, white lawn, put up bookfold, and ...

India Rubber: India Rubber. An elastic, gummy substance, consisting of the coagulated milky juice of various trees and shrubs found in Central and South America and Africa....

India Shawls: India Shawls. Another name for Cashmere shawls. India has been famous from time immemorial for the production of that most ...

India Silks: India Silks. Among the many varieties of silks manufactured in India, five may be more especially designated as entering more or less extensively the markets ...

Indigo: Indigo. A well-known and exceedingly valuable blue dyeing substance. It has been in use in Europe since the First century, being ...

Indigo Blue Calico: Indigo Blue Calico. A fine blue color, which is produced upon cotton by placing in an immense vat 2,000 gallons of water, 20 ...

Ingrain: Ingrain. [From in (the) grain] A term used to describe textile fabrics dyed before being woven; dyed in the ...

Inventory: Inventory (In'-Ven-Tory). An itemized descriptive list of articles, such as goods and chatties; specifically a formal list of moveables, ...

Invoice: Invoice. [From French envois, plural of envoy, a sending, conveyance] A written account, or letter of advice of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to ...

Italian Cloth: Italian Cloth. A kind of jean, woven with a satin face, made of cotton and ...

Ivory Nut: Ivory Nut. The seed of a low growing palm native to South America. The seeds grow in clusters, from four to nine together. Each seed is about as large as a hen'...

Jacket: Jacket. A short coat or body garment; any garment for the body coming not lower than the hips. In the United ...

Jack-Towel: Jack-Towel. A coarse towel for general use, hanging from a roller. ...

Jaconet: Jaconet (Jack'-O-Net). A thin, soft variety of muslin used for making dresses, neckcloths, fancy articles, etc., ...

Jacquard: Jacquard, Joseph M. The inventor of the apparatus which bears his name. This is not a loom, but an appendage to looms, which, in the ...

Janus Cloth: Janus Cloth. [From Janus, a god in Roman mythology, who is repre-presented as having two faces]. A textile ...

Janus Cord: Janus Cord. A kind of rep, made of woolen and cotton, the cord or rib showing on both sides alike. ...

Japanese Printing: Japanese Printing. The Japanese people continue to follow at present, as they have followed in the past for unknown centuries, the primitive method of ...

Japanning: Japanning. The art of coating surfaces of metal, wood, etc., with japan or varnish to produce a high black luster. Japanning liquid is made by cooking gum ...

Jean: Jean. [A term generally regarded as having been derived from the town of Jaen, Spain] A twilled and calendered cotton ...

Jersey: Jersey. [So called from Jersey, one of the channel islands of Great Britain. The State of New Jersey was, in 1664, named after the same island] A close-fitting ...

Jobber: Jobber. One who purchases goods in bulk and resells them to smaller dealers. A wholesale dealer, as distinguished from a manufacturer. ...

Jumper: Jumper. A kind of loose jacket with sleeves, made of denim or duck and worn by laborers ...

Jute: Jute. A fiber-producing plant of the genus Corchoras, which alone furnishes the jute-fiber of commerce. It is an ...

Kamptulicon: Kamptulicon (Kamp-Tu'-Li-Con). A variety of floor cloth, invented in 1843, but not generally introduced until about 1855. The ...

Kangaroo Leather: Kangaroo Leather. See Leather. ...

Kapok: Kapok (Ka-Pok'). The silky wool which invests the seeds of a species of silk-cotton tree ...

Kerchief: Kerchief. [From Fr. couvrir, to cover, and chef, head] Properly a cloth to cover the head, and originally signifying a simple square or ...

Kersey: Kersey. [So-called from having first been manufactured at the village of Kersey, Suffolk county, England, in 1051] The kersey of former times was comparatively a ...

Kerseymere: Kerseymere. A finer description of kersey, taking its name from the factory at which it is was originally ...

Kid Gloves: Kid Gloves. In kid and other snug fitting leather gloves a size is one-quarter of an inch. The measurement is taken around the full width of the ...

Kilt: Kilt. [ME kylten, to tuck up; Sw. kilta, the lap] In the garb of old Gaul the kilt was called a fillibeg. In the original Highland dress, ...

Kilting Machine: Kilting Machine. An appliance used for the purpose of kilting or pleating, which it can perform more perfectly and with greater speed than can be done by ...

Kip: Kip. Leather made from the hide of a young or small beast. The term is also applied to leather made from the skins of full-grown cattle when they are of a small breed,...

Kneipp Linen: Kneipp Linen. [From Herr Kneipp, inventor and advocate of its use] An elastic knitted linen fabric, made ...

Knickerbocker: Knickerbocker. A cotton dress fabric, woven with a rough, knitted surface. The ...

Knitting: Knitting. The art of forming loose fabrics or textures with the use of needles or wires and a single continuous ...

Knitting Cotton: Knitting Cotton. A loosely twisted cotton yarn used for darning purposes, the ...

Knitting-Needle: Knitting-Needle. A straight, slender rod, usually of steel, with rounded ends; three are generally used at once for hand ...

Knitting' Silk: Knitting' Silk. A slack-twisted silk yarn, used for the knitting of ...

Knotting: Knotting. A kind of fancy work made with twisted and knotted threads, and closely imitating some old forms of lace. The term knotting in ...

Labels: Labels. Woven labels are small strips of silk with a merchants' name and address woven into it, sewed to the inside of collars of ...

Laine Elastic: Laine Elastic. A light weight woolen dress fabric, dyed a dull black, used generally for ...

Lace: Lace. [From It. laccio, noose, snare, string. Lace originally meant a braid or tie - a signification still surviving in shoe ...

Lace Curtains: Lace Curtains. The use of curtains originated during the brilliant civilizations which were developed in a very remote antiquity ...

Lady's Cloth: Lady's Cloth. A term by which is distinguished a class of fine, wide flannels slightly napped, used for making ladies' light wraps and dresses. ...

Lambrequin: Lambrequin (Lam'-Bre-Quin). A term which has passed through several stages of evolution to reach the particular place it at present fills among ...

Lamb's Wool: Lamb's Wool. The wool of lambs, used in manufacture; hence, delicate wool, as ...

Lappet-Weaving: Lappet-Weaving. A system of weaving used for producing figures on the surface of cloth by means of ...

Lariat: Lariat (Lar'-I-At). A rope used to tie horses and other animals together. Also a thong or noose made of rope, rawhide or ...

Lasting: Lasting. [A contraction of everlasting] A strong and durable worsted fabric, ...

Laventine: Laventine (Lav'-An-Tine). A thin silk, used especially for sleeve-linings. ...

Lawn: Lawn. A term applied first in 1423 to a fine thin linen fabric at that time much used for kerchiefs and ruching, ...

Leno: Leno (Le'-No). [A corrupt form of Fr. linon, lawn] A very thin linen ...

Levantine: Levantine. A stout twilled silk, so called from having originally been exported from the Levant. ...

Line: Line. In button manufacture, one-fortieth of an inch; the size of buttons being denoted by the number of ...

Linen: Linen. Under this term are comprehended all yarns spun and fabrics woven from flax fiber. The cultivation and ...

Linen Diaper: Linen Diaper. Linen cloth woven in the same way as damask, but having a small set ...

Lingerie: Lingerie (Lan'-Zhe-Re). A French term of wide meaning, used to describe collectively all the linen, cotton, ...

Linoleum: Linoleum. A variety of floor cloth, consisting of oxidized linseed oil combined with ground cork, treated and ...

Linon: Linon. A French word signifying lawn. ...

Linsey-Woolsey: Linsey-Woolsey. A coarse flannel of linen and wool mixed was first made at the ...

Lisle Thread: Lisle Thread (Lile Thred). An extremely fine and hard-twisted thread first made in the north of France, near the city of Lisle (...

Lisse: Lisse (Lece). [Fr. lisse, ribbon, border, piping] A sheer fabric having the same ...

List: List. The border or edge of cloth forming the selvage, usually different in color from the body of the ...

Livery: Livery. A garment or entire costume formerly worn by the retainers of a feudal lord, the followers of a military superior, or the ...

Llama: Llama (La'-Ma). A South American animal similar in appearance to the alpaca and the camel. Its hair is frequently used in the ...

Lockram: Lockram. A kind of linen cloth, usually the cheapest and coarsest sorts. ...

Logwood: Logwood. A valuable dye, the product of the logwood tree, native to Central America, and grown also in the West Indies. The best qualities come from Campeachy, ...

Loom: Loom. [Literally, an utensil, from the Anglo-Saxon loma, furniture, utensils] The loom is the machine on which weaving is performed, the ...

Looped Cord Fabric: Looped Cord Fabric. A method of weaving in which the weft threads are composed of spiral or looped ...

Louisine: Louisine (Louis-Ene'). A thin surah silk, woven in small checks and stripes, and also dyed in solid ...

Lustering: Lustering. A process of giving to woolen cloth a permanent gloss and smooth surface which will not roughen with wear. This is ...

Lustrene: Lustrene (Lus'-Trene). A glossy twilled lining, made in imitation of Lyons silk, used for lining men's clothes ...

Lustring: Lustring (Lus'-String). A variety of glossy silk dress fabric, in extensive use during ...

Mackintosh: Mackintosh. The present use of rubber in the manufacture of clothing was discovered and perfected by Charles Goodyear, who was ...

Macrame: Macrame (Mac-Ra-Ma'). A strong, hard-twisted, cotton cord, prepared for the manufacture of ...

Madapollam: Madapollam (Mad-A-Pol'-Lam). [So called from Madapollam, a town in India] A coarse heavy cotton cloth, ...

Madder: Madder. A plant, the roots of which are ground up and when dissolved in water, used as a red dye. The use of madder has been known from the earliest times, as ...

Madras: Madras. A large handkerchief of silk and cotton, usually in bright ...

Mail Cloth: Mail Cloth. A heavy, lustrous silk fabric, of a weave resembling huck-a-back, or ...

Manila: Manila (Man-Il'-A). A fibrous material obtained from the leaves and stalks of a hemp plant that grows in the Phillipine islands. The ...

Manteau: Manteau (Man'-To). A cloak or mantle; specifically, a woman's cloak or outer garment, particularly one that ...

Mantilla: Mantilla (Man-Til'-A). A woman's head-covering, often of lace, which falls down upon the shoulders and may be ...

Mantle: Mantle. A loose, sleeveless garment, worn as an outer covering, falling in straight lines from the shoulders; a simple kind of a cloak. ...

Mantua-Maker: Mantua-Maker (Man'-Tu-A). One who makes women's gowns; a dressmaker. ...

Manufacture: Manufacture. Anything made for use from raw materials. To fabricate, especially in considerable quantities or numbers, or by the aid of many hands or of ...

Marbled: Marbled. A term in cloth-manufacture applied to fabrics woven with wefts of different ...

Marceline: Marceline (Mar'-Se-Lin). A French trade name for a variety of thin silk used for the lining of women's dresses. ...

Marking-Cotton: Marking-Cotton. Loosely-twisted cotton thread, dyed solid colors, usually ...

Marseilles: Marseilles (Mar-Salz'). [A name derived the city where first manufactured, Marseilles, France] A stiff corded cotton ...

Marsella: Marsella (Mar-Sel'-La). Twilled marseilles. ...

Marvelieux: Marvelieux (Mar-Vel-O'). A fine, close-twilled, satin-faced silk dress ...

Matelasse: Matelasse (Mat-Las-A'). A term applied to silk or woolen cloth to denote the particular style of its ...

Matting: Matting. A fabric of some coarse material, as rushes, hemp, coir, bamboo, palm leaves, etc., used as a cheap ...

Mauve: Mauve (Mawv). [French mauve, mallow] A reddish-purple dye obtained from aniline, so called from the resemblance ...

Measures: Measures. A system by which extent is ascertained or expressed; stated quantities. Our measures of lengths originated in the dawn of civilization and came ...

Medici: Medici (Med'-I-Ki). A form of collar for ladies' cloaks and dresses, distinguished by being very high and ...

Melange: Melange (Ma-Lonzh'). A term derived from the French, signifying a mixture. In the dry goods trade ...

Melton: Melton, [So called from the name of original English manufacturer] A stout kind of woolen cloth used for men's clothing. In recent years ...

Mercantile: Mercantile. A term pertaining to the traffic carried on by merchants; having to do with trade or commerce; trading; commercial. Mercantile applies only to the ...

Mercer: Mercer. A dealer in small wares, or in merchandise of any sort. In England the term is applied to a dealer in cloths of different sorts, especially ...

Merino: Merino. The finest wool-bearing breed of sheep in the world, of Spanish origin, so called from their anciently being under the superinten-...

Merveilleuse: Merveilleuse (Mer'-Va-Lyez). [Fr. merveilleux, marvelous, exquisite] A fashionable woman under the Directory in France at the close of the 18th century, at ...

Mesh: Mesh. One of the open spaces in bobbinet; an opening in netting or network of a size determined by the distance apart of the knots by ...

Meter: Meter. A French measure of 39.37 inches, or nearly 3 feet 3 3/8 inches. It is usually counted as 1 1/12 yards. ...

Metric System: Metric System. A system of measurement in which the meter is the fundamental unit. It was first adopted in France In the year 1800, ...

Milan Braid: Milan Braid. A variety of flat braid used for trimming and binding, made of mohair ...

Milled Cloth: Milled Cloth. Cloth which has been thickened and shrunk in a fulling mill, until it is fulled or felted. ...

Milliner: Milliner. Formerly a man who sold ribbands and dresses for women; now, in common usage, a woman who makes and sells bonnets and other headgear for women. ...

Milling: Milling. The felting or fulling of cloth to thicken it. Double-milled cloths are woolen cloths which are ...

Mill-Raye: Mill-Raye. [A French term meaning all striped or all streaked] A variety of percale, so named as being descriptive of the pattern, ...

Mitts: Mitts. A sort of glove without fingers, or with very short fingers. Mitts sometimes cover the hand only, and sometimes the forearm to the ...

Mocha: Mocha. See Gloves. ...

Mockado Or Mock Velvet: Mockado Or Mock Velvet. A stuff manufactured in the 16th and 17th centuries; described as a ...

Mohair: Mohair. Mohair, Brilliantine and Sicillian are dress fabrics having the same organization and construction. They are each woven with ...

Mohair Is The Hair Of The Angora Goat: Mohair Is The Hair Of The Angora Goat. The word is a corruption of the German mohr (a Moor). The material was first introduced ...

Moire: Moire (Mwo'-Ra). The French term for clouded or watered silks. The weave on which a moire effect is produced is ...

Moleskin: Moleskin. [So called from its fancied resemblance to the skin of a mole] A heavy cotton fabric, double-...

Momie: Momie. French for mummy. [See Mummy] ...

Montanac: Montanac (Mon'-Ta-Nac). [Probably derived from montanic, rough, uneven] A heavy, napped woolen overcoat-...

Moquette: Moquette (Mo-Ket'). [French moquette, tuft of wool] A variety of carpeting, with a soft, velvety nap of wool, and ...

Mordant: Mordant. A substance used to fix colors; a substance which has an affinity for, or which can at least penetrate the fibre of the ...

Moreen: Moreen. [Formerly moireen, from moire]. A fabric of mohair or ...

Morocco: Morocco. A term used by leather manufacturers, having two distinct significations. 1. Leather made from goatskins tanned with sumac, ...

Mosquito Netting: Mosquito Netting. A coarse cotton gauze with large open meshes. The most common kind has a single ...

Mourning: Mourning. The custom of showing grief by outward signs is universal. The general form in civilized countries consists of wearing garments of ...

Mousquetaire: Mousquetaire (Mus-Ke-Tare'). A style of ladies' kid glove, distinguished by its long loose top and a lengthwise slit at the wrist; ...

Mousseline-De-Laine: Mousseline-De-Laine (Mos-E-Line'De-Lane'). [French for muslin of wool] An ...

Muff: Muff. A case or cover into which both hands may be thrust to keep them warm. It is commonly of a rounded form, and made of fur, but sometimes ...

Muffler: Muffler. A term derived from the French word amusler, to cover. The muslau or muffle is a word of French derivation which has been in use for centuries to ...

Mull: Mull. [From Latin mollio, to soften] An extremely thin, soft and transparent kind of muslin, used for dresses, neckwear, trimming, etc. It ...

Mullmull: Mullmull. Same as Mull. ...

Mull Muslin: Mull Muslin. A bleached muslin of the finest and softest quality. ...

Mummy Cloth: Mummy Cloth. Cloth in which the mummies or embalmed human bodies, taken out of the Pyramids of Egypt, were enveloped, the material of ...

Mungo: Mungo. See Shoddy. ...

Muslin: Muslin. A name derived from Mosul, a city in Asiatic Turkey, long celebrated for the fineness and delicacy of its cottons. Mosul, while it did not originate the ...

Mutual Accounts: Mutual Accounts. Accounts in which each of two firm or parties have one or more charges against the other. ...

Myrtle-Green: Myrtle-Green. A rich pure green of full chroma but low luminosity. [See Colors] ...

Mysore Silk: Mysore Silk. Soft fine undressed silk of Hindoo manufacture. They are imported in all ...

Nacre: Nacre (Nak-Ra'). A French word applied in the United States to decorated objects; as nacre porcelain, nacre ribbons. The word in the original French means a mother-...

Nail: Nail. A unit of English cloth-measure 2 1/4 inches, or one-sixteenth of a yard. Abbreviated N. ...

Nagapore Silk: Nagapore Silk. A kind of India silk, soft, slight and undressed, and usually in plain colors of the dyes ...

Nainsook: Nainsook (Nan'-Suk). [From Hindoo nainsukh,a. term which was formerly used to designate India muslin, or sprigged muslin] A kind of ...

Nankeen: Nankeen (Nan-Ken). A plain-woven cotton fabric, in former years (1820-1840) extensively imported from Nanking, ...

Nap: Nap. [French naper, to nip off the knots on the surface of cloth] The wooly surface of felt, cloth aad plants. ...

Napery: Napery. [From Fr. nappe, a table-cloth] Linen cloths used for domestic purposes, especially for the table; table-...

Napkin: Napkin. [From Fr. nappa, which means literally little cloth.] A small, square piece of linen ...

Napping: Napping. See Teasling. ...

Natural Thread: Natural Thread. The fiber of the mescal plant, grown in New Mexico and Arizona. It looks very much like a cabbage plant. On a ...

Neck Cloth: Neck Cloth. A folded cloth worn around the neck, as a band or cravat; an article of ...

Necktie: Necktie. Properly a narrow band, generally of silk or satin, worn around the neck, and ...

Needle: Needle. The date at which needles were invented and first used is lost in the darkness of prehistoric times. From Eve with her ...

Needle-Loom: Needle-Loom. A form of loom used especially for ribbons and narrow fabrics, in which the weft is carried ...

Needle-Threader: Needle-Threader. A device for passing a thread through the eye of a needle. One such device is a ...

Net: Net. An open textile fabric, of cotton, linen, ...

Nether-Stocking: Nether-Stocking. The lower part of the hose or leg-covering, as distinguished from the trunk-hose or thigh-covering of the olden ...

Netting-Machine: Netting-Machine. A bobbinet loom. A machine by means of which the action of the hands is imitated, and ...

Nettle-Cloth: Nettle-Cloth. A thick cotton cloth which, when japanned, is used instead of leather for ...

New Orleans Cotton: New Orleans Cotton. A grade grown on the banks of the Mississippi and Red rivers. It is clean, soft and glossy in appearance; rather short in staple ...

New Market: New Market. A style of ladies' winter cloaks, imported from England about 1880, at which time it superseded a style known as the ...

Night-Gown: Night-Gown. A night-dress for women, high in the neck, with long sleeves, covering the whole person. A night ...

Noil: Noil. The short lengths and knots of wool taken from the long staple in the process of combing. The noils thus accumulated are used either to ...

Nom-De-Drap: Nom-De-Drap (Nom'-De-Drah). [A French phrase for cloth in name] A term applied to silk ...

Normal: Normal. A descriptive term used with reference to knit underwear, having application to both color and quality. ...

Nottingham Lace: Nottingham Lace. See Lace Curtains. ...

Nubia: Nubia. [From Latin nubes, a cloud] A knitted or crocheted scarf of Soft, fleecy material, worn about the head and neck. ...

Nun's Cotton: Nun's Cotton. A general designation applied to all fine white embroidery-cotton, from its use in ...

Nun's Veiling: Nun's Veiling. A variety of wide untwilled woolen dress fabric, very soft, fine and thin; formerly used ...

Nursery Cloth: Nursery Cloth. Fine bleached muslin, diapered linen, nankeen or other fabrics ...

Nutria Fur: Nutria Fur. The fur of an animal of the genus rodent, somewhat resembling both the musk-rat and the beaver. It ...

Obi Cloth: Obi Cloth. A kind of Japanese silk, embroidered with gay colors, with fanciful designs, used for hangings and ...

Oil-Cloth: Oil-Cloth. The body of floor oil-cloth is composed of burlaps, which is made of jute. By far the larger ...

Oil Red: Oil Red. See Turkey-Red. ...

Oiled Silk: Oiled Silk. Thin silk saturated with boiled oil, semi-transparent and waterproof. It is much used in tailoring and dressmaking to ...

Oil Skin: Oil Skin. Heavy cotton or linen cloth impregnated with a preparation of oil to make ...

Open Account: Open Account. A course of business dealing still continued between two parties. An account of which up to date there has been no statement made; an account ...

Organdie: Organdie. A fine variety of white goods, woven plain, cross-barred, striped and printed with figures. The stripes are damasked, ...

Organzine: Organzine (Or-Gan-Zene'). A silk thread for the warp in ...

Osnaburg: Osnaburg. A term used in the United States to describe a coarse, plain-woven cotton fabric, manufactured ...

Ostrich Feathers: Ostrich Feathers. The fine feathers of the ostrich, long known and used as ornaments. The bird is a native of Africa, but is ...

Ottoman: Ottoman. [From Ottoman empire, Turkish empire, a word applied to anything regarded as distinctly Turkish in character] A fine, soft undressed ...

Outing Flannel: Outing Flannel. A soft, loose-woven fiannellette, woven of cotton and finished with a slight nap. [See ...

Overalls: Overalls. Loose trousers made of duck or denim, made to wear over others to protect ...

Overcoat: Overcoat. A coat worn by men over the other dress, a top coat; a great coat; opera coat; ...

Overshoe: Overshoe. A term signifying any sort of an outer water-proof shoe; specifically, an outside shoe lined with flannel, ...

Oxford Shirting: Oxford Shirting. See Shirting. ...

Padding: Padding. In calico-printing, the process of applying to the fabric a mordant, which ...

Paduasoy: Paduasoy (Pad'-U-A-Soi). A smooth, strong, rich silk originally manufactured at Padua, Italy; in vogue during the last century for ladies'...

Pajamas: Pajamas (Pa-Ja'-Maz). Loose drawers or trousers, usually of silk or silk and cotton, ...

Palempore: Palempore (Pal'-Em-Pore). A flowered chintz bed-cover, of a kind formerly made at many places in India, but now extensively in Europe ...

Paletot: Paletot (Pal'-E-To). [A term derived directly from French paletot, an overcoat, but further traceable to Latin palla, a long upper ...

Pallium: Pallium. A symbol of office worn by bishops and archbishops of the Catholic church. It consists of a white woolen band, about two inches ...

Pantalets: Pantalets. Long frilled drawers reaching to the ankles worn by women and girls. ...

Pantella: Pantella. A stocking of recent introduction, designed to dispense with the use of garters and provide a complete covering for the legs, the tops being knit ...

Pantaloons: Pantaloons. A term derived from Pantalone, a ridiculous character in Italian comedy, and a buffoon in pantomine, who first wore ...

Paper: Paper. A material consisting of a compacted web or felting of vegetable fibers, commonly in the form of a thin flexible sheet. ...

Paper Collars: Paper Collars. A collar for men, made of paper, cut to fit the neck, and covered with thin ...

Paper Linge: Paper Linge. [French paper linen] An imitation of linen damask, made of ...

Papier-Mache: Papier-Mache (Pa'-Pa-Ma-Sha'). A substance composed principally of paper (to which other substances may be added to impart special ...

Paramatta Cloth: Paramatta Cloth. A twilled dress fabric made in imitation of bombazine, ...

Parasol: Parasol. [From parry, guard, and Sol, the sun] A light umbrella, or sun-shade, carried by women. According to historical records the ...

Partnership: Partnership. The relation existing between persons who combine their services, property and credit for the purpose of conducting business for their joint ...

Passe: Passe (Pas-Sa'). Past; out of use or style; faded. ...

Passementerie: Passementerie (Pas-Men '-Tri). A term applied to heavy embroidery or lace edgings and trimmings, ...

Passement: Passement (Pas'-Ment). A decorative edging or trimming, especially a gimp or braid, ...

Pearl Buttons: Pearl Buttons. See Buttons, Appendix A. ...

Pearl: Pearl. In lace and ribbon-making one of the loops which from the outer edge. [See Purl, ...

Pea-Jacket: Pea-Jacket. A heavy short coat, generally of pilot-cloth, worn in cold or stormy weather. ...

Peau De Soie: Peau De Soie (Po'-De-Soa). [From French peau, leather, and soie, silk - signifying a silk with a fine, even ...

Pebble: Pebble. To finish leather so as to cause the grain to become prominent, and to present a roughened or ribbed appearance. The imparting of ...

Pekin: Pekin. A trimming fabric, made in alternate stipes of satin and velvet, which vary in ...

Pelisse: Pelisse (Pe-Lece'). [From French pelisse, a skin of fur] A garment, according to its name, that should be ...

Penang: Penang. A cotton fabric similar to percale, except that it is heavier. It owes its ...

Percale: Percale. [A French term signifying cambric muslin, ox cotton cambric, as ...

Petticoat: Petticoat. A skirt; formerly the skirt of a woman's dress or robe, frequently worn over a hoop or ...

Picking: Picking. The final operation in finishing woven fabrics, by going over the surface and removing burrs and blemishes by hand, or retouching the color with dye by ...

Picot: Picot (Pe'-Ko). [French picot, from pic, a purl or point] A small loop forming part of an ornamental edging, but larger than the purl and ...

Piece-Dyed: Piece-Dyed. Dyed in the piece; said of cloth dyed after weaving as distinguished from that made of ...

Piece-Goods: Piece-Goods. All kinds of cotton, linen, silk or wool ...

Pigment Color: Pigment Color. In dyeing, a color prepared in the form of a powder, and insoluble in the liquid by which it is applied to the ...

Pile: Pile. [From Latin pi/us, hair] Nap of a regular and closely set kind, consisting of threads standing close together,...

Pile Weaving: Pile Weaving. A process of weaving in which a third thread is introduced, and formed into loops by ...

Pillow: Pillow. A soft cushion filled with down, feathers, curled hair, or other yielding material, used to support the ...

Pillow-Lace: Pillow-Lace. See Lace. ...

Pilot-Cloth: Pilot-Cloth. A woolen cloth, slightly heavier than ordinary Kersey, and with a shorter and closer ...

Pin: Pin. A small piece of wire, generally brass and tinned, pointed at one end and with a rounded head at the other, used as a fastener. There is no article used in the ...

Pina-Cloth: Pina-Cloth (Pe'-Nya). A thin and translucent fabric made of the fiber of the pineapple-plant. This ...

Pinafore: Pinafore. A child's apron. ...

Pineapple Cloth: Pineapple Cloth. A sort of fine fabric made of the filaments of the leaves of the pineapple plant. The leaves are gathered by ...

Pique: Pique (Pe-Ka'). (Frenchpique, quilting). A washable cotton material, so woven as to have a small pattern in ...

Plaid: Plaid. A pattern in textile fabrics consisting of bars or stripes of color crossing each other at right angles. The term ...

Plastron: Plastron (Plas'-Tron). A garment or part of a garment covering the breast. ...

Plush: Plush. A term derived from French peluch, which in turn is derived from Latin pilus, hair, from the fact that when plush was first manufactured it was made with a ...

Ply: Ply. A fold; a thickness. A term often used to designate the number of strands of which yarn is made. P. M. ...

Polo-Cap: Polo-Cap. A variety finished without peak or roll, usually made of silk, low, flat-crowned and soft. Men's traveling caps are made ...

Polonaise: Polonaise (Po-!O-Naz'). A light, open gown looped up at the sides, showing the front of an elaborate ...

Pompadour: Pompadour. A design used in the manufacture of silk fabrics, consisting of small delicate leaves and ...

Ponceau: Ponceau (Pon-So'). [From Latin puniceus, red] Poppy-corn color -a flame color. In dyeing, the name for various coal-tar ...

Poncho: Poncho (Pon'-Cho). A kind of covering worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. Also a ...

Pongee Silk: Pongee Silk. Properly, a thin, soft, washable, silk fabric, woven from the natural, uncolored raw ...

Poplin: Poplin. In the 15th century a fabric was woven at Avignon, France, (which at that time was a papal diocese) and calledpapaline, in ...

Portiere: Portiere (Por-Tier'). [French for door-curtain] A heavy curtain or drapery hung at a doorway, or entrance to a room, to intercept the ...

Prayer Rug: Prayer Rug. A rug or small carpet intended to be spread on the floor of a mosque or on the ground by a Moslem when engaged in his ...

Princess: Princess. A term in dressmaking which denotes the form and style of a long gown for women, made in one continuous piece without ...

Print: Print. A contraction of printed calicoes. [See Calico] ...

Prunella: Prunella. A kind of lasting of which clergymen's gowns were once made, but now only used for the uppers of women's ...

Purple: Purple. The high estimation in which the color called purple has been held, dates back to a very remote period. The word is exceedingly common in the Scriptures, ...

Quaker Color: Quaker Color. The color of the drab or gray fabrics much worn by a religious sect known as the Quakers; an olive-gray to dove color. Among the Quakers the ...

Quality Binding: Quality Binding. A kind of wide worsted tape, used for binding the borders of carpets and similar ...

Quarter Blanket: Quarter Blanket. A horse-blanket intended to cover only the back and a part of the hips. It is usually put on under the harness, Queenstitch. A simple ...

Quilling: Quilling. A narrow bordering of net, lace or ribbon, pleated, crimped or fluted so as to ...

Quilt: Quilt. A coverlet or counterpane. The Honeycomb ...

Quilting: Quilting. A cover or lining made by stitching together two thicknesses of a fabric (usually silk or ...

Radsimir: Radsimir (Rad'-Si-Mer). [From French ras de St. Maur, cloth of St. Maur] A rich description of dress ...

Rag-Wool: Rag-Wool. See Shoddy, Adulteration of Fabrics. ...

Raiment: Raiment. A contraction of arrayment. That in which a person is clad, or arrayed; clothing; vesture; dress; garb; costume; habiliments; ...

Ramie: Ramie. A fiber-producing plant native to China, Japan and the Malay islands, but can be, and is, grown in any moderate climate, especially ...

Ratteen: Ratteen. [From Ger. ratee, honey comb] A cheap coarse woolen cloth resembling frieze in outward appearance; it ...

Refoozo: Refoozo (Re-Bo '-Tho). A narrow shawl or long scarf, worn by Mexican and Spanish American women, covering the head and shoulders, and ...

Recherche: Recherche, (re-sher'-sa). Exceedingly fine; out of the common; rare; dainty; hifalutin. ...

Redingote: Redingote. A double breasted outside coat with long plain skirts, not cut away at the point; also similar ...

Reed: Reed. That part of a loom used to separate the threads of the warp and for beating the weft ...

Reefer: Reefer. A heavy garment for men; originally a close-fitting jacket or short coat made ...

Reel: Reel. The process of winding silk round an appropriate frame, in order to make a skein of it. ...

Regular: Regular. A term as applied to dry goods having two distinct meanings: Regular goods are those varieties ...

Remnant: Remnant. A contraction of remanent, from Latin remanes, that which remains or is left behind. ...

Rep: Rep. [Corrupted from rib] A style of weaving in which the surface presents a transverse-ribbed appearance, by close, round twills or cords ...

Repellent: Repellent. A general term for solid-colored, plain-woven, six-quarter-wide cloths used for making ladies' and children's wraps and winter dresses, ordinarily ...

Reseau: Reseau [Ra-Zow'). A term designating the ground of lace when composed of regular uniform meshes, whether of one ...

Retail: Retail. A word derived from French retailler, to cut again- from re, again and tailler, to cut; whence also comes our word ...

Reticule: Reticule. [From French reticule; Latin, reticulus, a little net] A bag, originally of net-work, but later of any formation of material, ...

Ribbon: Ribbon. A strip of fine fabric, as silk, satin, or velvet, ...

Rigby Cloth: Rigby Cloth. A variety of waterproof cloth. The term Rigby applies more to the process than to the cloth, as any woolen cloth may be ...

Robe De Chambre: Robe De Chambre. A morning gown, or dressing gown. ...

Rope: Rope. See Cordage. ...

Rubbers: Rubbers. A general term used to designate both lined and unlined rubber footwear. Many people suppose that rubbers are made by melting the material and running it ...

Rucking: Rucking. A kind of ruffled or goffered quilling, used chiefly for ladies' neckwear; made of bobbinet, ...

Ruff: Ruff. [From Dutch ruyffcl, to wrinkle or rumple] A projecting band or frill, pleated or bristling, especially one worn around the neck. In ...

Rug: Rug. A small pile-woven mat or carpet, in size ranging from one foot square to the dimensions of an ordinary setting ...

Russet: Russet. A coarse woolen cloth, home spun and home woven, used for men's garments; a term generally derived from the redish-brown color of ...

Russet Leather: Russet Leather. Leather finished, but not polished or colored; except as colored by the tanning liquor. ...

Russian Embroidery: Russian Embroidery. Embroidering in simple and formal patterns, zig-zags, frets, etc., especially that which is applied to washable materials, as ...

Sack: Sack. [A word found with little variation in all languages, generally regarded as being derived from ancient Hebrew sag, a bag for holding corn] A coarse-woven bag ...

Sack-Cloth: Sack-Cloth. A penitential fabric. The ancients, more particularly the Hebrews and Assyrians during the period of great affliction, ...

Safety Pin: Safety Pin. A pin bent back on itself, the bend forming a spring, and having the point fitting into a kind of sheath, so that it will ...

Salary: Salary. Literally and originally, money for salt, derived from Latin salarium, money given the Roman soldiers for salt. At present the term signifies a recompense ...

Samite: Samite. A costly silk, frequently mentioned by old writers under the various titles of samittum, samitium, seyamitum, samilus, xamitum, or ...

Sash: Sash. [From Turk shash] An article borrowed by the English crusaders from the turbans of Orientals, only being disposed about the waist ...

Sateen: Sateen. A twilled cotton fabric, used for ladies' dresses when printed with appropriate patterns, and for ...

Satine: Satine. Printed calico, finished with a high gloss or luster. [See Calender, Calico]...

Satin: Satin. A silken fabric of high luster, used chiefly as a dress material, but also for innumerable minor purposes. ...

Satin Cloth: Satin Cloth. A French woolen material of satin weave, having a smooth face. It is employed for women's dresses; is dyed in a variety ...

Satin Damask: Satin Damask. A silk textile with an elaborate floral design. In some cases the pattern is raised in ...

Satin De Bruges: Satin De Bruges (Satin De Bruzh). A fabric of silk and ...

Satin Cuttanee: Satin Cuttanee (Satin Cut-Tan-Ee). A fine but thick cotton-backed material woven in stripes, and ...

Satin De Lyon: Satin De Lyon. A fine quality of lustrous satin, produced at Lyons, France, woven with a silk back. There ...

Satin Duchess: Satin Duchess. A name applied to a heavy grade of silk dress fabric. It is woven ...

Satin Or Broken Twill: Satin Or Broken Twill. In weaving this class of fabrics the peculiarity is that the order of interweaving the two sets ...

Satinet: Satinet. A material used almost exclusively in the manufacture of men's ready-made clothing. It is woven with a ...

Satinette: Satinette. A fabric closely allied to satin, being a cheaper description of the same, but equally durable, ...

Satin Jean: Satin Jean. A thick, strong fabric, woven on the satin principle; used for corsets, linings and women's ...

Satin Regence: Satin Regence. A rich and expensive description of dress silk, woven with a satin ...

Satin Rhadame: Satin Rhadame (Satin Rad'-A-My). A dress fabric, the ...

Satin Royal: Satin Royal. A very fine and expensive variety of dress silk, with a glossy satin ...

Satin Sheeting: Satin Sheeting. A material made of waste silk, of satin weave on the face and twilled ...

Satin Surah: Satin Surah (Satin Su'-Rah). A medium-heavy satin-faced dress material, the surface of which is diagonally ...

Say Cloth: Say Cloth. A cloth now obsolete, but which at one time (two or three centuries ago) was a well known woolen ...

Sayette: Sayette (Sa-Et'). [From It. saiette serge] A light fabric made of fine wool and ...

Scarfing: Scarfing. A cotton fabric, 18 inches in width, used for embroidering scarfs or covers for bedroom-dressers. ...

Schedule: Schedule. A paper in the form of a list, often as an explanatory addition to another document, containing an ...

Scissors: Scissors. A small pair of shears or blades, movable on a pivot. The word signified in the original Latin, not the cutting instrument, but the person who used it. ...

Scotch Cambric: Scotch Cambric. A fine cotton cambric, sometimes white and sometimes printed, used especially for ...

Scotch Cap: Scotch Cap. A knitted and fulled skull cap for men. [See Bonnet] ...

Scotch Carpet: Scotch Carpet. See Carpet. ...

Scrim: Scrim. [From Fr. escrim, a shield, or protection] A soft and loose-woven cotton fabric, often of fancy, lacey ...

Sealskin: Sealskin. For the supply of sealskin fur the markets of the United States and Europe are at the present day nearly entirely dependent upon ...

Sealskin Cloth: Sealskin Cloth. A variety of cloaking made of the finest kind of mohair, the shade given by dyeing ...

Selvage: Selvage. [From self edge, or that which makes an edge of itself without hemming] The edge of a web or fabric so woven that it does not ...

Seersucker: Seersucker. A washable cotton fabric, woven in stripes, usually of blue and white or brown and white. [...

Serge: Serge. A twilled worsted fabric, which, according to some writers, being at one time made from ...

Seric: Seric (Ser-Ik'). [From Latin seric, whence comes our word silk.] The Seres were an Asiatic people from whom the ancient Greeks ...

Serpentine Braid: Serpentine Braid. A black worsted trimming braid, so called from its resemblence to the winding or ...

Serviette: Serviette (Ser-VI-Et'). A napkin. ...

Sewing Silk: Sewing Silk. The present manufacture of sewing silk is a direct development of the colonial fireside ...

Shadow Silk: Shadow Silk. It is the habit of manufacturers of giving names, and sometimes queer ones, to every novelty that is introduced, and ...

Shaker Flannel: Shaker Flannel. Shaker is the name of a religious sect which emigrated to the United States in 1774 and colonized in different portions of various Eastern ...

Shalloon: Shalloon, A variety of worsted serge, twilled on both sides exactly alike. ...

Shantung Pongee Silk: Shantung Pongee Silk. A soft, undyed and undressed Chinese washing silk, made in imitation of the India or Hindoo goods of ...

Shaps: Shaps. [Corrupted from Spanish chaparejos] Leather overalls or leggins, worn by cow-boys in western United States and Mexico. ...

Shawl: Shawl. [From Persian and Hindostanee shal] An article of apparel made after the shape of a large kerchief, the ...

Shawl Material: Shawl Material. A brocaded fabric of silk and wool, ...

Sheep-Gut: Sheep-Gut. An article known in trade under the erroneous title of cat-gut. It is made of the twisted intestines of sheep. Whip cord, hatters' cord, bow string, ...

Sheer: Sheer. A term applied to cotton or linen fabrics which are fine and thin; soft and pliable. ...

Sheeting: Sheeting. Bleached or unbleached muslin, woven plain or twilled, ranging in width from 72 to 108 inches; in weight from 2 1/2 to 4 ...

Shetland Lace: Shetland Lace. An ornamental woolen trimming, made like open-work lace, except that it is made of finer woolen ...

Shetland Shawls: Shetland Shawls. A variety of fine light-weight shawls originally made on the Shetland Islands, off the coast of Scotland. The ...

Shift: Shift. An undergarment; a shirt; especially a woman's under garment; a chemise. ...

Shirt: Shirt. The English speaking peoples are indebted to the Arabs for the article of apparel known as the shirt, the Arabic name for which was camis, whence comes ...

Shirting: Shirting. Any fabric designed for making shirts, such as cheviot, osnaburg and ...

Shirt-Waist: Shirt-Waist. A garment for both women's and children's wear, resembling a shirt in ...

Shoddy: Shoddy. Formerly a term applied to the waste thrown off in wool-spinning, but now applied to the shredded ...

Shoes: Shoes. See Boots and Shoes. ...

Shoe Pegs: Shoe Pegs. A short wooden nail used for fastening the uppers to the soles of boots and shoes. Shoe ...

Shoe Protector: Shoe Protector. A narrow band of water-proofed velvet designed to be sewn on the inside of the ...

Shoe Thread: Shoe Thread. A strong unbleached flax thread yarn, made for the special use of ...

Shot: Shot. A term applied to silk fabrics having a changeable color like that produced in weaving, by all the ...

Shroud: Shroud. A winding-sheet; a covering of the nature of a garment in in which a dead body is wrapped, as a long white robe or ...

Shuttle: Shuttle. An instrument for carrying the thread of weft between the threads of warp in ...

Sieillian: Sieillian. A mohair dress fabric. [See Mohair] ...

Side Comb: Side Comb. A comb used in a woman's head-dress to retain a curl or lock of hair on the side of the head, usually in front of the ear; ...

Silesia: Silesia. Formerly a thin linen fabric, or sleasy kind of holland, so called because ...

Silk: Silk. The Word Silk in Different Languages. ...

Scouring: Scouring. - Up to this time the silk fiber continues to be lustreless, stiff, and harsh, from the coating of gum ...

Spun Silk: Spun Silk. - Fabrics made of silk are of two kinds, according as they are made of reeled or spun silk. In working the latter there is no ...

Silk Manufacture In The United States: Silk Manufacture In The United States. - Of all the manufacturing industries of which the United States is so justly proud, not one ...

Silk Manufacture In France: Silk Manufacture In France. - The total production of manufactured silk in the world per annum is estimated at a value ...

Singeing: Singeing, All fabrics when taken from the loom are covered with surface-hairs or fibrous down, which have been ...

Sizing: Sizing. Cotton is never woven in its natural state. It always receives a dressing or coating of some kind of liquid size which is ...

Skein: Skein. A fixed length of any thread or yarn of silk, cotton, ...

Skirt: Skirt. A woman's petticoat; that part of a woman's dress that hangs from the waist. A ...

Smock: Smock. An under garment worn by women, corresponding to the shirt worn by men; a ...

Smock-Frock: Smock-Frock. A garment of coarse linen, resembling a short shirt in shape, worn ...

Sock: Sock. [From L. soccus, a kind of low-heeled shoe or buskin] The socks of the early Anglo-Saxons were worn over the stocking, and within the ...

Spatterdask: Spatterdask. A cloth covering for the ankle and leg, spreading out at the bottom over the shoe; also called spats and over gaiters. ...

Spinning: Spinning. The operation of drawing out raw fiber (after having been carded or combed) and twisting it into threads, either by the hand ...

Spongre Silk: Spongre Silk. A knitted fabric made from the waste or sweepings of silk. It is made out of the husks, the ...

Spool Cotton: Spool Cotton. See Thread. ...

Sprig: Sprig. An ornament or pattern in the form of a sprig, or spray, or leaf, used to decorate plain-woven fabrics; as sprigged muslin. ...

Stockinette: Stockinette. A knitted woolen fabric, usually ornamented with a fine ribbed pattern, similar in character to that seen in common ...

Stockings: Stockings. A close-fitting covering for the foot and lower leg. Stockings were formerly made of cloth or ...

Stocking Tarn: Stocking Tarn. Coarse, loosely spun yarn, used exclusively for knitting socks and ...

Stuff: Stuff. A term applied in England, and to some extent in the United States, to any woven textile, whether cotton,...

Sueda: Sueda (Su-Da' ). A term applied to gloves made of leather tanned on the wrong or flesh side; or if finished on the right side having the thin, glossy outer ...

Sumac: Sumac. A product of the dried and ground leaves of the sumac bush. The liquid is extensiyely used for tanning light colored leather, and to some extent for ...

Sunshade: Sunshade. A parasol, in particular a variety fashionable about 1850 and later, the handle of which was hinged so that the opened top ...

Surah Silk: Surah Silk (Soo-Rah). A variety of soft, fine-twilled dress goods, woven with a flat twill similar to ...

Surplice: Surplice. A variety of heavy, plain-woven, bleached linen, used in various portions of the dress of nuns and ...

Surtout: Surtout. [From Fr. sur. over and tout, all - over-all] A man's over coat. In recent usage a coat cut like a frock ...

Suspenders: Suspenders. Several hundred years ago, the methods of keeping the trousers in place were exceedingly vexatious. Strings were ...

Sweater: Sweater. A very thick cardigan jacket, made of extremely coarse yarn, and felted so much as to make it ...

Swiss: Swiss. A variety of fine muslin, manufactured at Zurich and St. Gall, Switzerland for a long period before being made elsewhere in Europe, ...

Swiss Embroidery: Swiss Embroidery. A variety of needlework in white on white, in washable materials, originated in Switzerland during the early part of this century. An ...

Swivel: Swivel. A minute shuttle, used in weaving small figures in silks and ribbons, and moved to and fro across the ...

Tabaret: Tabaret (Tab'-A-Ret). A medium heavy silk fabric used for upholstery, ...

Tabbinet: Tabbinet (Tab'-I-Net). A fabric woven of silk and wool, like a ...

Tabby: Tabby, [From At-Tabi-Ya] a quarter in Bagdad, where it was first manufactured] A style of weaving which causes a ...

Table Linen: Table Linen. Table cloths, table napkins, tray napkins, damask slips, damask doylies, tea cloths, etc., are all included in the ...

Taffeta: Taffeta (Taf'-E-Ta). [From Persian taftah, to spin] A term of somewhat general application in the silk trade. It was formerly applied to ...

Tailor: Tailor (Formerly Also Taylor, tailer, tayler). [From French tailler. cutter, hence our word retail, to cut] One who makes the outer ...

Talma: Talma (Tal'-Ma). A kind of cloak for women in fashion during the first half of this century. A loose wrap with a ...

Tambour Work: Tambour Work. A species of embroidery worked upon muslin stretched tightly by means of hoops or a ...

Tamin: Tamin (Tam'-In). A thin woolen or worsted dress goods, plain woven, with a high gloss. ...

Tamise: Tamise (Tam'-Is). A trade name given to various thin woolen fabrics; specifically a fine, plain-woven woolen dress ...

Tammy: Tammy. Same as Tamin. ...

Tam 0' Shanter: Tam 0' Shanter. A style of cap borrowed from the Scotch, and named after the hero of a famous poem by Robert Burns. The cap is ...

Tapestry: Tapestry. A fabric resembling textile fabrics in that it consists of a warp upon ...

Tariff: Tariff. A term derived from Tarifa, Spain. This town received its name from Tarifa Malek, a Saracen chief, who landed at that point on the coast in 710, and during ...

Tarlatan: Tarlatan (Tarl'-Tan). [From Italian tarlantanna, linsey woolsey] A thin, gauze-like fabric made of ...

Tartan: Tartan. A woolen or worsted cloth woven of different colors crossing each other at ...

Tassel: Tassel (Tas'-L). A pendent ornament, consisting generally of a roundish mold, covered with twisted threads of silk, ...

Teasling: Teasling. The operation of raising a nap on the surface of woven cloth; also called ...

T-Cloth: T-Cloth. A plain-woven cotton fabric manufactured in this country and England for the Chinese and East India ...

Teasle Cloth: Teasle Cloth. See Outing Flannel, Flannellette, Domet. ...

Terry-Cloth: Terry-Cloth. [Supposed to have been derived from Fr. terre, high, from the elevation of the loops above the foundation of warp and ...

Textile: Textile. [From Latin textilis, texo, textum, to weave, anything woven, or suitable for weaving] Woven or capable of being woven, formed ...

Texture: Texture. The peculiar disposition of the threads, strands, or the like which make up a textile fabric. ...

Thibet Cloth: Thibet Cloth. A tailor's fabric, occupying a place midway between a melton and ...

Thimble: Thimble. A covering for the protection of the finger in the operation of sewing, of various forms, has been in use since the time when needlework first began to ...

Thread: Thread. A twisted filament of a fibrous substance, as cotton, flax ...

The Spool Thread Of To-Day: The Spool Thread Of To-Day, however, is not of the grade made before sewing machines became a modern factor. The early manufactured ...

Throstle: Throstle. A spinning frame, a modification of Arkwright's water frame, said to derive its name from a low musical hum, due to the ...

Tick: Tick. [From Fr. ticquette, ticket, a bill stuck up; a marked card; a token of any right or debt] Tick, the current slang for credit, is an abbreviation of ticket, ...

Ticking: Ticking. [Formerly spelled ticken.\ A strong cotton cloth, used chiefly tor making beds, covering mattresses, ...

Tile: Tile. A tall stiff hat; a silk hat; so called from its fancied resemblance to a section of polished tiling. ...

Tinsel: Tinsel. An ornamental fabric or cord overlaid with glittering metallic sparkles or threads. The name was formerly given to ...

Tippet: Tippet. A covering for the shoulders, so named from its forming the tip or cape of a garment, or from being worn ...

Tissue: Tissue. [From Fr. tissure, to weave] A woven fabric. In former times a very fine fabric, richly colored or ornamented, and often ...

Toga: Toga (To'-Ga). The principal outer garment worn by the ancient Romans. It was a loose and flowing mantle or wrap ...

Toile: Toile (Two-La' Or Twol). A plain-woven, bleached fabric generally of linen, though occasionally woven of fine-...

Toilet: Toilet. [From Fr. toile cloth] The dress and make-up of a person; also the operation of ...

Toilinette: Toilinette (Toil-I-Net'). See Valentia. ...

Toque: Toque (Toke). [From Welch toe, hat] A style of head covering worn in the 16th century by both men and women. At present a small form of ladies' ...

Tortoise-Shell: Tortoise-Shell (Tortis-Shell). The scales on the outer shell of certain sea-turtles. These horny scales or plates are naturally of a beautiful mottled or ...

Tow: Tow. The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp separated from the finer part by heckling or swingling. [See ...

Towel: Towel. A linen or cotton cloth used for drying the face and hands, and for other ...

Town-Made: Town-Made. A term referring to that class of fabric gloves or hosiery made by cutting out the various ...

Trade-Mark: Trade-Mark. A distinguishing mark or device adopted by a manufacturer or jobber and impressed on his goods and ...

Tricot: Tricot (Tre'-Ko). A French term signifying stocking net; tricotage means knitting, and tricoteur, knitter, hence ...

Trousers: Trousers. [From Fr. trousses, corresponding with the old English word breeches] In the United States the original word ...

Trunks: Trunks. See Bathing Trunks. ...

Trust: Trust. Specifically, a trust in modern commercial usage, is an organization for the control of several corporations under one set of directors, by the device of a ...

Tulle: Tulle (Tull). [Properly point de tulle, a fine net, so called from the town of that name, capital of the department of Correz, France] ...

Tunic: Tunic. A garment of high antiquity, now only worn by women and boys, but amongst the Romans and Greeks common to both sexes. Generally ...

Turkey Red: Turkey Red. Cochineal, which is so suitable a coloring matter for wool and silk, ...

Turkish Towel: Turkish Towel. A cotton hand towel, distinguished by the surface being covered with a looped ...

Turk's Satin: Turk's Satin. A soft brocaded silk material, with a twilled back. It is used for men's vests and women's ...

Tussah Silk: Tussah Silk. Silk made from the cocoons of wild silk worms in India. It is inferior to the product of the domesticated worm. ...

Tweed: Tweed. A woolen cloth manufactured solely for men's clothing. It is a twilled fabric, two or more ...

Twill: Twill. [From German twillen, to separate into two parts] An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in ...

Twines And Strings: Twines And Strings. See Cordage. ...

Twine Cloth: Twine Cloth. A fine bleached cotton cloth, used as a substitute for linen. ...

Ulster: Ulster. A style of long, loose overcoat, worn by both men and women, originally made of frieze ...

Umbrella: Umbrella. [From It. ombrello a little shade.] The umbrella lays claim to a pedigree of the highest antiquity, having had its origin in very remote ...

Underwear: Underwear. Underclothing; under linen; a general term which includes every article worn beneath the external or outer garments, by day ...

Union Cassimere: Union Cassimere. A mixed material confined exclusively to the manufacture of clothing. It is made with ...

Union Underwear: Union Underwear. A style of underwear in which the drawers and vest are combined together as one ...

Upholstery: Upholstery. A term by which every description of textile fabrics employed in the making and covering of furniture is designated. ...

Utrecht Velvet: Utrecht Velvet. Mohair furniture plush. Formerly this fabric was manufactured ...

Valentia: Valentia. A mixed material having a cotton warp, or a cotton-and-silk warp for the silk ...

Vegetable Flannel: Vegetable Flannel. A material made from pine leaves. When spun and woven the thread resembles hemp, ...

Vegetable Leather: Vegetable Leather. A name given to a cloth woven of flax and hemp coated with ...

Vegetable Ivory: Vegetable Ivory. See Buttons. ...

Vegetable Fibers: Vegetable Fibers. See Fiber. ...

Vegetable Silk: Vegetable Silk. A variety of brown colored down gathered from a kind of fern, imported from the Sandwich Islands, which is used in ...

Veil: Veil. In modern use the veil is a piece of gauze, barege, net, or similar ...

Vellum: Vellum. Parchment; the skin of calves prepared for writing or printing by long exposure in a bath of lime and by repeated rubbings with a burnisher; also, the skin ...

Velour: Velour. A French term signifying velvet, being derived from Latin villosus, shaggy. Among old English writers, and in the entries made in ...

Velure: Velure. A cotton fabric woven with a thick and soft pile, used for ...

Velvet: Velvet. [From Italian velluto, shaggy] A silken fabric having a short dense piled surface. It is the type of the numerous forms of piled ...

Velveteen: Velveteen. Cotton velvet. Velveteen is always of greater width than ...

Vest: Vest. [From vestment, clothing] A waistcoat; also a lady's knit undershirt. [See Appendix A.] Yictorine (vic-tor-ene'). A lady's ...

Vicuna: Vicuna (VI-Cu'-Na). A delicate all-wool dress fabric, produced in black and neutral ...

Waban Netting: Waban Netting. A netting of large mesh, especially adapted for draping pictures, easels, mantels and' portieres. It is a ...

Wadding: Wadding. A lap or fleece of cotton prepared by the carding engine, to the surface ...

Waist: Waist. A garment covering the waist or trunk; one worn especially by children to which petticoats or drawers are ...

Wale: Wale. A ridge or rib rising above the surface of woven cloth, and extending the entire length or width of the piece. The word has a similar ...

Warmus: Warmus (Pron. wawm'-mus). A heavy flannel jacket, worn in winter by farmers and other out-door laborers for ...

Warp: Warp. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, into which the weft is woven; also called chain and ...

Wash-Blonde: Wash-Blonde. A name given to a species of narrow bobbinet or Brussels net, suitable for quillings. It was ...

Watered: Watered. An effect produced upon gros grain silk by which the surface assumes a variety ...

Watteau Pleat: Watteau Pleat (Wat-Tu'). An arrangement of the back of a woman's dress in which broad folds or pleats hang from the neck to the ...

Weaving: Weaving. [From Anglo-Saxon weafan, to weave or fold about] The art of forming cloth by the interlacing of ...

Weft: Weft. The woof or filling of cloth. The threads that cross the warp from ...

Whalebone: Whalebone. The inaccurate term applied to the horny blades which take the place of teeth in the mouths of balaena whales. These blades are from three to twelve ...

Whipcord: Whipcord. A style of weaving in which large rounded cords extending the full length of the fabric, form the ...

Widow's Weeds: Widow's Weeds. Weeds signifies a garment, or a dress. The term is now almost obsolete, save ...

Wigan: Wigan. A very coarse and heavy sized cotton cloth, used for lining the bottom of ladies' dresses, in order to ...

Woad: Woad. A plant formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves, but is now used only with indigo as a ferment in ...

Wool: Wool. A form of hair distinguished by its soft and wavy or curly structure, and by its highly serrated or scaly surface. It would be idle to attempt to determine the ...

Worsted Yarn: Worsted Yarn, as has been explained, is made from long wool fibers brought as far as possible into a level parallel condition. The ...

Woolens: Woolens. There are two great classes of manufacturers in this country each employed in using the same raw material - the fiber from sheep:...

Worsted: Worsteds. In the 15th century the production of woolen fabrics was a source of great wealth to many towns in eastern England, each town usually striving to excel in some special ...

Yacht-Cloth: Yacht-Cloth (Yot Cloth). An all-wool fabric, twilled like ...

Yachting Caps: Yachting Caps (Yotting Caps). A cloth cap designed for ladies' and children's summer wear, the most ...

Yard: Yard. An English measure of 3 feet or 36 inches. How this particular measure came to be first established in England is uncertain, but it has so intimate a ...

Yarn: Yarn. Any textile fiber prepared by the process of spinning for being woven into ...

Appendix A: Length And Range Of Sizes: The garments for the various parts of the human body, together with numerous articles of dry goods devoted to the use of the same, are differentiated into sizes&...

Appendix B: Widths, Number Of Yards To The Pound, And Counts Of Threads To The Inch Of The Principal Makes Of Domestic Cottons, Ginghams, Drillings, Ticks, Etc: The following tables give the widths, number of yards to the pound, and counts of threads to the inch of the principal makes of domestic cottons, ginghams, drillings, ticks, etc.: ...

Cotton Drills: Boott Standard............................ 30 Clifton K.................................. 30 Darlington Mills........................... ...

Domestic Ginghams: 6.28 72x76 5.60 ...

Appendix C: The Tariff: A Table Of Leading Articles Imported, Giving The Rate Of Taxation At Entry By The New Tariff Of 1890. The articles covered by the ...

Wool And Manufactures Of Wool: All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like animals shall be divided for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged upon them, into the three following ...

Needles: Needles for knitting or sewing machines, crochet and tape needles and bodkins of metal, 35 per cent ad valorem....

Buttons And Button Forms: Button forms; lastings, mohair, cloth, silk or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns or such size, shape ...

Leather And Manufactures Of Leather: Calf skins tanned, dressed upper leather, including patent, japanned and enameled leather; chamois or other skins not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, 20 per cent ad valorem; ...

Miscellaneous Manufactures: Feathers and downs of all kinds, not specially provided for in this act 10 per cent ad valorem. Manufactured articles of feathers and down ...

Free List: On and after the 6th day of October, 1890, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, the following articles when imported shall be exempt from duty: ...

Appendix D: A List Of German Words And Phrases With English: Spelling And Pronunciation To those who desire to obtain a practical knowledge of German trade words and phrases, and haye but a limited time to devote to it, the following ...

Easy German Expressions: If you please - gue'-tigst Yes, Sir - yah, mine hair Yes, Madam - yah, mad-am' No, Sir - Nine, mine hair No, Madam - Nine, Mad-am' No, Miss - Nine,...

The Relations in German: The father - dair fah'ter the grandfather - dair gros-fah' ter the step-father - dair stelf-fah' ter the fatherland - day fah' ter-land ...

The Dress in German: The clothes - dee klider the coat - dair rock the trowsers - dee hozen the pocket - dee tashay the ...

Collective Numbers in German: A pair - ine pahr a dozen - ine doot'-send a score - tsvan' tsig firstly - ayr'stens secondly - tsvi' tens thirdly - dry' tens ...

Countries and Nations in German: The country - das land the native land - das faterland the state - dair staht the empire - das riche the kingdom - das keuni^raic// ...

Adverbs in German: Yes - yah indeed - yah vole truly - in dair tate certainly - vaar' lich surely - gay-viss' only - noor some - et' vas ...

Window Trimming: The merchant of to-day needs little argument to convince him that an attractive window display is a powerful means of increasing his trade. Charity knows that the way to a man's pocket is through ...

Shop Window Design: Color: Imitation of nature is the perfection of art. Whether we walk in garden or street, in store or shop, the eye is gratified with some glimmerings of this noble workcolor completes the whole. ...

Shop Window Design: Background: The relative merits of white and dark backgrounds are the subject of much dispute. The real test is : Does the drapery bring out the articles shown in strong relief and ...

Shop Window Design: Arrangement: Simplicity in arrangement as well as in color is desirable. It is a safe rule not to display a great variety of articles in the same window, as a complicated arrangement usually appears confused. ...

Silk Puffs and Folds: Several kinds of rich materials contain sufficient body to hold them in a given position for a considerable length of time; this is especially the case in regard to silks, which are raised to ...

Print Puffs: Modes of arrangement must always vary according to the finish of the goods in vogue. As fashion requires a dressy or soft finish, every department is affected; and as in ...

Dress Goods Drapery: Generally speaking, dress fabrics should be displayed in the window by draping in the form of a dress skirt. A great variety of designs may be ...

The Tier Window: The simplest and most convenient method of displaying a quantity of fabrics in the show window, and one which can be recommended alike for its economy and opportunities offered the display of a ...

A Lily Window: During the heated term pocket handkerchiefs are, as a matter of course, somewhat more in demand than at any other season of the year. The styles and patterns are now more numerous than ...

Easter Lily Window: Use a white flannel or broadcloth to cover the floor of window and background. Right in the center place a good-sixed white or light cream ...

An Easter Design: A novel curtain which is easily adapted to decorating an Easter window trim is composed entirely of brightly colored egg shells. The egg shells are first colored, and then run on strings, the ...

A Clock Window: This suggestion is applicable to any line of goods, although the design calls for its construction of notions. It is made by taking boards and cleating them together, then ...

Hosiery: Suspend a large hoop from the ceiling, over which pin a variety of hose, the feet meeting to the center. For the side, arrange ...

A May-Pole Window: An appropriate trim for the month of May, and one which offers a fertile field for the exercise of taste and skill, is a May-pole. In the center of the window is erected a round pole, at least ...

A Toboggan Slide: With a window sufficiently large, an effective winter display can be made by covering the entire back and sides of the window with sheets of snow white cotton. Beginning ...

A Ribbon Window: There is no line of goods carried in a dry goods stock that is more diversified in color, widths and general effects than are ribbons. A very ...

A Button "Wheel": A very attractive window piece may be made by building a flat circular foundation of rough boards, making a disc about four or five feet in diameter. Cover this with black ...

A Button Display: Drape the background and side of the window with white lace curtains. Make a framework of light boards of an old castle, with a tower at one end, similar in shape ...

A Gingham Window: Across the top of the window stretch some fine spool wire or string, commencing at the glass, and placing the wires about six inches apart. Let them slant to the back. On these hang ladies' ...

Pins and Needles: A very taking trim may be arranged by introducing into the display every article that is required for domestic sewing purposes. First construct a minature house with an ell ...

An Underwear and Hosiery Window: From front corners of the window have four arms. On same, place Swiss ribbed vests and drawers. Above these on either side have a semicircular arm made of wire, if you so ...

Stocking Window: A very handsome window display can be effected by means of stockings only, with little or no expense. Arrange a false bottom to the window by the use of pine boards, ...

A Parasol Window: Line the background and sides with yellow serge, or China silk. In the center of the window place a small wooden box ...

Table Oilcloths: Oil-cloths should always be displayed on a sample rack, and a small dealer with a small stock can do a large business in this way from the fact that every pattern represented is shown with the ...

A "Color" Window: What is meant by this, is a display of goods composed entirely of one color. To produce the best effect with a window of this character the trimmer should be careful not to use too many goods. The ...

A "Canning-Apron" Window: The retailers all over the country are always ready to supply the necessary aprons and proper fabrics for gowns for the canning season. Many a lady who seldom finds time to enter into the ...

Table Covers and Napkins: To make a display of these goods it is desirable to use table covers and napkins that match, or at least nearly so. In the center of the window place a ...

A Lace "Fountain": Line the sides of the window with light blue cambric, and over this festoon wide lace from top to bottom. Festoons of ...

A "Grand Army" Window: For occasions of Grand Army encampments or re-unions a window devoted to a representation of camp life is very appropriate. This may be made by sodding the floor of the window with genuine grass ...

A Bridge Window: The foundations or piers of the bridge are made of rolls of cloth, but could also be made of boxes covered with cotton dashed with paint to ...

A Corset Window: A very stocky display may be made by building in a window an archway of corsets. The frame-work is light scantling, nailed to the floor and ceiling about two and a half or three feet apart, ...

Cloaks Display: To display cloaks effectively it is advisable not to show too many at once. A good plan is to arrange a pair of lace curtains at the back ...

A Suiting Window: From the back of the window, near the top, hang a half hoopso that the outer edge of the semi-circle will reach within a foot of the glass, the ends of the hoop ...

A "Vase" of Dress Goods: A very tasteful trim may be formed of dress goods arranged to imitate a huge vase or goblet. The vase is formed by taking several pieces of goods with light designs and ...

To Display Dress Goods Without Forms: To drape dress goods in a window where there are no forms, take a square board, say twenty by twenty, and nail a small strip at back ...

Kid Glove Display: An effective display of kid gloves is made by arranging around the border of the window a piece of wide lace. This can be made fast by pinning ...

Glove Arrangement: Rich gloves, like many other kinds of fancy articles, only require to be carefully hung or laid over the rods to show the particular feature; but two rows will always be more attractive than one, ...

Plush and Velvet "Drums": By taking a stiff pasteboard drum or roll, about four feet long and twelve inches in diameter, and pinning tightly and smoothly around it bright colored plush or ...

Dress Goods Columns: The above design is one which can be carried out with no greater expense than that of a few hours' labor. The columns or pillars can be made out of stout strawboard or pasteboard, bent into ...

A Fan of Dress Goods: A favorite arrangement for dress goods is to arrange six colors of material in the shape of a huge fan, each section composed of a different ...

A Tent Window: The properties required for this scene are a pole, a small buggy-wheel, a few short pieces of wood, and a well assorted lot of dry goods. The pole should ...

A Cupola Window: The design on the opposite page represents a bell and cupola formed of white linen handkerchiefs. It makes a very effective show window, and is well adapted for the ...

A Portiere Window: In the background of window drape dark colored dress goods plainly. Across these weave No. 9 bright colored ribbon in sqares of about a ...

A Pipe Organ of Ribbon: A beautiful window during Easter-tide is formed by imitating a pipe organ of ribbons. The background, side wall and surroundings for this display should be of white ...

An Indian Wigwam: The above design always proves a great attraction. The idea is to represent an Indian camp in the woods, and is executed in the following manner: Construct a tent by means of a pole inserted in ...

The Fancy Dress Window: The present is an age of great things, big stocks and striking trims. The proprietor of a vast establishment fills up his massive window with heaps upon heaps of goods, making an immense show; ...

Handkerchiefs and Underwear: To make a neat handkerchief display, cover the side of window well with blue cambric; then pin on white and ...

The Lover's Window: The above is the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, done in handkerchiefs. The framework, which is simple, is covered mostly with ladies' handkerchiefs, with embroidered edges. The ...

Corset Window: The corset window requires that the boxes should be ranged uniformly. Dressed in rows close to the glass, they look well ; but a more attractive display can be ...

A Lace Window: A good window of real white lace may be made up as follows: Hang festoons from the brackets, from side to side, front to back, or center to corners, but not too close ...

Hosiery Arrangement: Hose may be arranged in several different ways. Richly embroidered goods must hang with a good sweep to the window, but common kinds should be drawn up short, or the ...

Christmas Window Trimming: Although there seems to be a general impression that the Christmas tree is an outgrowth of a German custom, it seems to antedate the Christian era, and is said to have originated in the fact that ...

Christmas Scenes: In the preparation of windows for this festal season, the selection of winter scenes is usually attended by successful displays. It is not a difficult matter to simulate frost and snow with ...

An Interior Trim: First secure screw-eyes to the center of the store ceiling, from front to back. These should be at equal distances apartsay from 4 to 6 feet. Take cheap umbrellas, open them, and decorate ...

How to Dress A Christmas Tree: Select one with special reference to the space it is to occupy. One with branches firm and quite tall is best: The upper branches should be decorated before the tree is set up; tie upon the tips ...

Mixed Windows: The tendency of the time is toward exclusive displays, but the heavy and formal outlines generally so presented would form a great argument against them. An immense show of silks in stacks will ...

How to Keep Windows from Frosting: One of the most reliable ways to prevent windows from frosting is to cut a space through the window frame at the bottom and another at the top of the windows that front on the street. Then close ...

How to Have Bright Windows: There is a knack even in washing windows. They should be kept clean and thoroughly clear for the display of goods. Choose a dull day, or at least, a time when the sun is not shining on the window, ...

Advice To Salesmen: The future kings and princes of the Dry Goods trade must come out of the army of clerks and salesmen, and those who prepare and fit themselves to fill high positions ...

How To Show Goods: Selling goods is something like making a speech. Both depend upon how you begin and how you end. First impressions are always lasting. In your first minute with a ...

Sell Good Goods: In selling goods never talk price, but always quality. Quality is what after all, makes or loses a customer. Price has nothing to do with a customer's palate. We are all, more or less, slaves to ...

How To Wait On Two Customers: It is always in order to impress on the first customer, if a lady, that you wish to show her everything, and fully satisfy her, and while you are doing same, the question to waiting customer, &...

Rules For Handling Customers: FirstBe ready to receive customers with a gracious, cordial and friendly address; not too forward, but in a quiet, easy manner cause your customer to feel that he has come to the right ...

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