goat.
Canvas--A linen, cotton, silk, or wool cloth of different weaves
and widths, used for many purposes--clothing, as a background for
embroidery, hangings, spreads, etc.
Canton flannel--A stout, twilled cotton cloth with a nap on one or
both sides, used for clothing and decorative purposes.
Cassimere--A general term for all-wool fabrics woven either plain
or twilled, coarse or fine, of woolen yarn. The pattern is always
woven plain and distinct and the cloth is never napped.
Castor Beaver--A heavy, milled, face-finished, all-wool cloth
lighter in weight than ordinary beaver.
Chinchilla--A thick, heavy, double woven fabric with a long napped
surface curled up into little tufs in imitation of chinchilla fur;
used for coats.
Clan Tartan--The plaids of the various highland clans of Scotland.
Clay--A name given to serges, worsteds, and diagonals woven after a
process of J. & P. Clay of Haddersfield, England.
Coating--Those woolen and worsted fabrics most especially adapted
to men's dress and overcoats.
Corduroy--A thick cotton pile material, corded or ribbed on the
surface; used for men's, women's and children's wear.
Corkscrew-worsted goods--So-called from its fancied resemblance to
the twists of the corkscrew.
Cotton worsted--All cotton or part cotton worsted-wove cloth.
Cottonade--Stout cotton cloth in imitation of woolen or worsted;
used for men's trousers.
Covert--A twill-woven cloth sometimes with full face, sometimes
sheared to imitate whipcord.
Crape cloth--A stout worsted fabric with surface in imitation of
silk crape, used for dress coats.
Crash--A strong, course linen cloth of different widths, used for
towels, suits, table linen, hangings, bed spreads; in fact, there
is no end to the uses to which this textile can be adapted.
Cravenette--Cloths treated and finished before weaving by an
improved process which renders them rainproof. A secret process
owned by the Cravenette Company and by Priestly & Company of
England and the United States.
Crepe--A light weight silk, silk and wool, or all wool or cotton
cloth of irregular weave.
Diagonal--A worsted cloth with prominent diagonal ridges.
Doeskin--A compact twilled woolen, soft and pliable.
Drap D'Alma--A fine, close,
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