Cloth

A textile which is made from wool with short staples, as distinct from worsted and stuff which use wool with long staples.

Whilst Bradford and Halifax concentrated on worsted textiles, towns such as Huddersfield and Dewsbury manufactured more cloth.

Some types of cloth and fabrics mentioned here include

Alpaca Amens Angora Baize Baldachin Bay Bays & says Bedford Birds-eye Bombazine Broad cloth Calamanco Calico Calimanco Callimancoe Cambric Camlet Chenille Coatings Coburg Corduroy Damask Diagonal Dimity Drill Duroy Everlastings Felt Figures Flannel Flannelette Forest Whites Fustian Gabroon Genappe Halifax cloth Harden cloth Jean Kendal cloth Kersey Lasting

Lawn Levantine Linsey Little Joans Long ell Mackintosh Manchester cloth Medley cloth Mohair Moleskin Moreen Nainsook Narrow cloth Noondoo Northern dozens Norwich crapes Orleans Paramatta cloth Petersham Prunelle Russel Sateen Satin Say Seersucker Serge Shalloon Shoddy Stoving Stuff Taffeta Thin Plains Toilinette Turkey red Twill Velvet Velveteen Whipcord Whole cloth Wildbore Worsted

See Cloth Hall, Heptonstall Cloth Hall, Cloth-making, Clout, Farming, Cloth friezer, Halifax cloth, Halifax Cloth Hall, St Bartholomew's Cloth Fair, Perch and Printing on cloth

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