Pattern family
Pile & Textured Cloths
These are the fabrics built for a raised, dimensional surface: pile cloths that carry extra yarns lifted above the ground weave, cut or looped, like corduroy, velvet, and terry, and the quilted and blistered cloths like matelasse whose surface puffs into relief. The family is defined by how that third dimension is made.
Corduroy
No. 035fabric · pile
Velvet
No. 052fabric · pile
Felt
No. 054fabric · pile
Moleskin
No. 061fabric · pile
Fustian
No. 072fabric · pile
Velveteen
No. 073fabric · pile
Chenille
No. 096fabric · pile
Baize
No. 138fabric · pile
Matelassé
No. 146fabric · pile
Cloqué
No. 147fabric · pile
Moquette
No. 148fabric · pile
Panne Velvet
No. 161fabric · pile
From the journal
Costume makers hunt cloths that no longer sell under their old names. Samite, coutil, fustian, melton: what each was, and what to use instead today.
The Cloth That Built Manchester →Plain cotton cloth made Manchester the first industrial city, drove the factory system and the cotton famine, and remade the world. The cloth is gingham.