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Cloth

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Woven fabric as sheet and stock. Not wool or linen as fibre alone, and not every named textile weave.

Also known as Fabric

  • Cloth is historically related to Wool.

    Beck’s draper’s handbook seats wool cloth among ordinary woven stock of trade. A named cloth beside wool as a chief fibre, not linen as another fibre and not every named weave.

    from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Cloth is historically related to Linen.

    Beck’s draper’s handbook seats linen cloth beside wool among ordinary woven trade goods. A named cloth beside linen as a second chief fibre, not identity with the plant flax alone.

    from S. William Beck · The Draper’s Dictionary, 1882

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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