Plate No. 066fabric
- First documented
- 1400s
- Fiber
- cotton, linen
- Weave
- fine plain weave, high count
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 066 · fabric
Lawn
Lawn is a fine, crisp, semi-sheer plain weave, originally the linen of the French town of Laon and now most often a high-count combed cotton. It is the crisp one among the fine cottons, where batiste is the soft one: lawn holds a press and a clean edge, which made it the cloth of bishops' sleeves, handkerchiefs, and summer dresses. Liberty of London built a fabric empire on printed Tana Lawn, and the bishop's lawn sleeve is why high Anglican vestments are still said to be lawn.
Named for
Named for Laon, the French linen town, not for grass: lawn the fabric is two centuries older than lawn the yard.
Often confused with
Sources & References
- 1.Lawn cloth, Wikipedia
- 2.lawn, Online Etymology Dictionary
