Glace

Glace, a glossy or luster finish given to threads and fabrics.

Grass Linen

Grass Linen, a thin, transparent muslin (usually natural colored), made from ramie. It is used for lining. Width 27 inches; price 35 cents up.

Gros Grain

Gros Grain, a dull-finish silk with a fine woof cord. Width 20 inches; price $1.50 up.

Habutai (hab-u ti)

Habutai (hab-u ti), a Japanese all-silk material, of fine smooth weave. Width 25 to 36 inches; price 35 cents to $1.50.

Hair Cloth

Hair Cloth, a stiff lining made from horses' manes and tails. The warp thread is the hair, while the filling is of cotton or linen. Width 24 inches; price 35 cents.

Hemp

Hemp, see article on hemp.

Henrietta Cloth

Henrietta Cloth, a fine quality of worsted, woven cloth, with less luster than cashmere. Width 44 inches; price $1.00 up.

Homespun

Homespun, cloth woven by hand and not in factories. The British Isles are famous for these cloths. It also applies to a rough woven woolen manufactured goods. Width 54 inches; price $1.50 up.

Hyde Grade

Hyde Grade, light weight, firmly woven cloth in cotton, wool or mixed, used for linings and underskirts. It is the manufacturers' name and does not specify any one material, but includes percales, moreens, etc.

India Lawn

India Lawn, a fine, high-grade muslin. Width 30 inches; price 25 cents up.

Indian Head

Indian Head, a firm, coarse woven cotton cloth, similar to duck. Width 36 inches; price 15 cents.

Jute

Jute, see article on same.

Khaki

Khaki, a dust colored cotton drilling, deriving its name from the U. S. Army, at the time of the Spanish-American war. Width 28 inches; price 35 cents.

Ladies' Cloth

Ladies' Cloth, a light weight broadcloth. Width 52 inches; price $1.00.

Lawn

Lawn, a thin, cotton or linen cambric or muslin. Width 36 inches; price 25 cents up.

Linen

Linen, see article on same.

Long Cloth

Long Cloth, soft, fine bleached muslin, used for underclothes. Width 36 inches; price 15 cents to 25 cents. 12 yards at $2.00.

Madras

Madras, a kind of gingham, but heavier, made in cotton and silk, plain or figured. Width 28 inches; price 25 cents up.

Marquisette

Marquisette, a kind of voile of a more open weave, made in cotton and silk. Cotton, width 28 inches; price 25 cents up. Silk, 44 inches; price $3.00.

Mercerized

Mercerized, a soft finish given to linen and cotton, thru a process of a caustic soda solution.

Messaline

Messaline, a soft silk or cotton with a satin finish. Cotton, width 36 inches; price 35 cents. Silk, width 26 inches; price $1.00.

Mohair

Mohair, a fine quality alpaca, from the angora goat. Width 40 inches; price 75 cents up.

Moire

Moire, a watered effect, made in silks, moreens, etc.

Moreen or Morrain

Moreen or Morrain, a strong, closely-woven material, with a cotton, wool, silk or mixed warp and a mohair filling.

Cotton

Cotton, width 27 inches; price 35 cents.

Wool

Wool, width 26 inches; price 60 cents.

Silk

Silk, width 24 inches; price 75 cents up.

Mixed

Mixed, width 24 inches; price 50 cents.

Mousseline de Soie

Mousseline de Soie, a high-grade silk muslin. Width 48 inches; price 50 cents up.

Mull

Mull, thin, sheer muslin. Width 24 inches; price 20 cents up.

Muslin

Muslin, plain, woven cotton cloth. A general term.

Nap

Nap, the down of the fibers covering the surface of certain kinds of cloth. It follows one direction, and may be raised or flat.

Noil

Noil, short fibers of the short staple woolen fibers; waste.

Nuns Veiling

Nuns Veiling, a thin, woolen goods, plain woven and dyed black. Width 44 inches; price 75 cents.

Outing Cloth

Outing Cloth, see Canton flannel, daisy flannel, etc.

Organdie

Organdie, thin, sheer muslin with a fine and finished texture, plain or printed, with delicate flower patterns. Width 36 inches; price 25 cents up.

Panama

Panama, a light woolen material. Width 54 to 58 inches; price $1.00 up.

Panne

Panne, a light weight velvet, with a long nap and a high luster. Width 18 inches; price $1.00 up.

Paon

Paon, a fine, all-silk quality of velvet. Width 18 inches; price $3.00 up.

Peau de Cygne

Peau de Cygne, a thin, twilled silk. Width 20 inches; price 75 cents to $2.00.

Peau de Soie

Peau de Soie, a soft, satin finish silk. Width 35 inches; price $1.00 to $3.00.

Percale

Percale, a closely woven cotton cloth with more dressing than muslin. Width 28 to 36 inches; price 15 cents up.

Percalene

Percalene, a watered or glazed surface cotton cloth used for linings. Width 36 inches; price 20 cents up.

Persian Lawn

Persian Lawn, a sheer quality of lawn. Width 32 inches; price 15 cents to 25 cents.

Persian Silk

Persian Silk, silk with a Persian pattern woven in the loom. Width 19 inches; price 85 cents up.

Pique or Pecay

Pique or Pecay, an even corded effect, made on the warp threads of cotton cloth. Width 27 inches; price 25 cents.

Pique (French)

Pique (French), a fine quality pique that is imported. Width 28 inches; price 50 cents up.

Pongee

Pongee, a natural colored silk cloth from Shantung, made from the cocoons found on the mulberry tree. Width 21 to 34 inches; price $1.00 to $2.00.

Poplin

Poplin, a cotton, woolen or silk dress goods with a cord woven in the woof thread.

Cotton

Cotton, width 24 inches, price 15c.

Woolen

Woolen, width 20 inches, price $1.50.

Silk

Silk, width 24 inches, price 75c up.

Mixed

Mixed, width 40 inches, price $1.50.

Print

Print, any cotton cloth with a printed pattern stamped on it. See calico.

Rajah

Rajah, a silk similar to pongee, with an uneven thickness in the woof thread. It is also imitated in cotton. Silk, width 18 inches, price $1.50 up. Cotton, width 24 inches, price 35c.

Russian Crash

Russian Crash, a coarse grey, woven crash used for dress goods and embroidery as well as toweling. Width 17 inches, price 20c up.

Ramie

Ramie, see article on Linen.

Sateen

Sateen, a fine threaded, closely twilled cotton cloth, with a glossy finish. Width 36 inches, price 25c-50c.

Satin

Satin, a silk or cotton and silk fabric with a high luster on the right side and a dressing in it. Width 22-24 inches, price $1.00 up.

Satin Foulard

Satin Foulard, a foulard silk, with a satin finish on the right side.

Satin Linings

Silk back, width 30-40 inches, price $1.50-$2.50.

Satin back, width 36 inches, price 50c.

Silk Serge, width 30 inches, price $2.00 up.

Silk Taffeta, width 24-36 inches, price 75c up.

Cotton back, width 36 inches, price 70c; herringbone, width 20 inches, price 75c up.

Surah serge, width 30 inches, price $2.00 up.

Scrim

Scrim, a thin, partly transparent cotton or linen cloth. Width 36 inches, price 25c.

Seersucker

Seersucker, a sort of gingham with a crinkly surface. Width 36 inches, price 15c.

Selvage

Selvage, the edge of a cloth running on the warp threads, to prevent raveling.

Serge

Serge, a fine plain or diagonal weave of woolen goods varying in widths and price.

Herringbone

Herringbone, striped and fancy weaves. Width 54 inches, price $1.50 up.

Tailor's serge. Width 56 inches, price $2.50.

Army serge. Width 64 inches, price $4.00.

Sheeting

Sheeting, linen and cotton cloth of specified widths, weights and price, manufactured to fit regulation size mattresses on beds. Width 1/3 yards, price 10c up.

Shepherds Plaid

Shepherds Plaid, a name given to a small, even black and white checked goods in cotton and woolen.

Shoddy

Shoddy, a refuse waste from wool or woolens while in the process of manufacture, and used as filling or woof on cheap materials.

Shot

Shot, a changeable color effect given to silk.

Sicilian

Sicilian, similar to alpaca, with cotton warp and mohair woof. Width 36-54 inches, price $1.00-$2.00.

Silesia

Silesia, a lining cloth made of fine and closely woven cotton. Width 36 inches, price 25c.

Silk

Silk, a fabric made from the silk fiber of the larvae from many kinds of moths or silk worms. See article on Silk.

Silk Muslin

Silk Muslin, a silk fabric of the same weave and weight as fine muslin. Mousseline de Soie is another name for it. Width 36 inches, price 75c up.

Sizing

Sizing, starching, flouring or stiffening the warp-threads to make them brittle before weaving.

Skinner's Satin

Skinner's Satin, a heavy, fine grade of satin lining, used for coats. Width 36 inches, price $l.C0-$3.00.

Spinning

Spinning, the process of drawing out and twisting into thread, textile fibers of any description by hand or machinery.

Suitings

Suitings, varieties of woolens, worsted or cotton mixed fabrics of a plain, heavy texture for suits.

Surah

Surah, a twilled silk. Width 24 inches, price 75c.

Symite

Symite, a silk and wool fabric. Width 44 inches, price $2.00.

Taffeta

Taffeta, a plain, even woven silk the same on both sides, with more or less stiffening. Width 18 to 36 inches, price 50c up.

Tailor's Canvas

Tailor's Canvas, a strong, stiff canvas of high quality used in coats. Width 25 inches, price 25-50c.

Tennis Flannel

Tennis Flannel, see flannelette.

Textile

Textile, any fabric woven in the loom.

Tweed

Tweed, a twilled, woolen suiting, similar to homespun. England and Scotland are noted for them. Width 56 inches, price $2.00 up.

Twill

Twill, a diagonally woven effect in cloth.

Twist

Twist, a silk thread of two or more strands twisted together, heavier than sewing silk, put on spools of 50 yards each or more.

Velvet

Velvet, a closely woven silk material with a short pile on the right side. It is formed by a loop, which is afterwards cut.

Cotton back. Width 18 inches, price $1.50. Linen back. Width 32 inches, price $3.00.

Silk back. Width 18 inches, price $5.00 up.

Velveteen

Velveteen, a velvet woven, all cotton material wider than velvet. Width 21 inches up, price 50c up.

Venetian Cloth

Venetian Cloth, a high grade, twill-woven cloth, of worsted, made in plain colors like broadcloth. Width 50 inches, price $1.50 up.

Victoria Lawn

Victoria Lawn, a finer grade than Persian. Width 36 inches, price 25c up.

Voile

Voile, an open, even woven cotton, woolen or silk fabric, with some stiffening in it. Width 46 inches, price $1.00 up.

Wool

Wool, see article on Wool.

Woolens

Woolens, cloths produced from the wool fibers, and of a wider width than cottons.

Weaving

Weaving, the art or process of forming cloth by interlacing yarn in a loom with a warp foundation, and a woof filling.

Worsted

Worsted, a variety of yarn from the wool fibers spun from the long staple and in spinning, is twisted tighter than usual.

Yarn

Yarn, any kind of animal or vegetable spun thread used for weaving; not sewing thread.

Zephyr

Zephyr, relates to soft, fluffy goods as flannel, gingham, etc.; also yarn.

Zibeline

Zibeline, woolen dress goods, with long hairs woven in from the fur of camel's hair order. Width 54 inches, price $1.50.