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Gabardine Closeup view of gabardine fabric. Gabardine is a durable twill worsted wool. It is a tightly woven waterproof fabric and is used to make outerwear and various other garments, such as suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, and windbreakers. Thomas Burberry created the fabric in the late 1870s and patented it in 1888. [1]
Chino cloth Chino cloth is a kind of twill fabric, usually made primarily from cotton. Chintz Chintz is calico cloth printed with flowers and other devices in different colors. It was originally of Eastern manufacture. Coir Coir is a coarse fiber extracted from the fibrous outer shell of a coconut. Colorfast (colourfast)
Melton cloth, woven in a twill form and traditionally made of wool, is a very solid cloth whose finishing processes completely conceal the twill weave pattern. It is thick, because of having been well fulled, which gives it a felt-like smooth surface, and is napped and very closely sheared. Melton is similar to Mackinaw cloth. Because of its ...
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Worsted cloth, archaically also known as stuff, is lightweight and has a coarse texture. The weave is usually twill or plain. Twilled fabrics such as whipcord, gabardine and serge are often made from worsted yarn. Worsted fabric made from wool has a natural recovery, meaning that it is resilient and quickly returns to its natural shape, but non ...
Sharkskin is a twill weave fabric created using acetate, rayon, worsted wool, lycra, and other plastic fibers. The arrangement of darker and brighter threads in a twill weave creates a subtle pattern of lines that run across the fabric diagonally and a two tone, lustrous appearance.
In addition, Cheviot cloth value ranges in GDP is £0.97, and the competitors offer is £0.55. [1] Cheviot suiting's for sportswear are made from harder spun worsted yarns, and some are also made from botany worsted. Cheviot shirting is a stout, twilled, cotton fabric woven with small geometrical patterns or with warp stripes and bleached weft. [2]
Drill is a versatile fabric that has been used in a variety of applications. Boat sail drill is a lightweight, unbleached drill used to make sails for sailing craft. [1] [5] [6] Although duck (canvas) was more commonly used for these purposes, [7] drill has also been used to make tarpaulins, tents, awnings and canopies, [8] but the use of both fabrics has been supplanted in modern times with ...