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Samples of cloth showing many typical Madras patterns. Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India. [1]
A madras fabric weaving workshop in Chennai, the Indian city once known as Madras, circa 1990. ... From there, madras “became a staple for both free and enslaved Black people,” especially ...
Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, braided or knitted from textile fibres. A. Aertex; Alençon lace; Antique satin ... Madras; Matelassé ...
A traditional four-piece costume. The Wob Dwyiet (or Wobe Dwiette), a grand robe worn by the earlier French settlers. The madras is the traditional pattern of the women and girls of Dominica and St. Lucia, and its name is derived from the madras cloth, a fabric used in the costume.
The cloth pattern takes its name from Tattersall's horse market, which was started in London in 1766. [2] During the 18th century at Tattersall's horse market blankets with this checked pattern were sold for use on horses. [1] Today tattersall is a common pattern, often woven in cotton, particularly in flannel, used for shirts or waistcoats.
Slubby cotton fabric includes: Madras (cloth), woven from short-staple cotton; Some denim used for jeans; the slubs cause the cloth to fade unevenly, in a pattern called tate-ochi; Linen is often slubbed. Wool fabrics, such as tweeds, may also be slubbed. [1] Unspun short-fiber silk noil; see sericulture Tsumugi cloth, showing slubs
Design for a hand woodblock printed textile, showing the complexity of the blocks used to make repeating patterns in the later 19th century. Tulip and Willow by William Morris, 1873. Woodblock printing on textiles is the process of printing patterns on fabrics, typically linen, cotton, or silk, by means of carved wooden blocks.
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.