Percale
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Percale[1] is a closely woven plain-weave fabric often used for bed covers. Percale has a thread count of about 180 or higher and is noticeably tighter than twill or sateen. It has medium weight, is firm and smooth with no gloss, and washes very well. It is made from both carded and combed yarns, and may be woven of various fibers, such as cotton, polyester, or various blends.[2]
History
Moris or mauris was the 18th-century French term used for percale, the cloth imported from India.[3][4] It was a cotton cloth. Moris was the third most exported fabric from Coromandel Coast after Longcloth and Salampore. It was superior and finer quality than the peers. Coromandel coastline forms a part of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Moris was produced at Nellore, Arni, Maduranthakam, and Cuddalore. Palakollu. The cloth was famous as painted chintz in southeast countries also.[5][6][7][8]
Percale was formerly imported from India in the 17th and 18th centuries,[9] then manufactured in France.[10]
Etymology
The word may originate from the Template:Langx : pargālah, meaning rag,[11][12] although the Oxford English Dictionary (as of December 2005) has traced it only as far as 18th-century French. The dictionary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans describes Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang". as some kind of silk fabric in the year 1348 in Valencia.[13] The etymological dictionary of Catalan explains Script error: No such module "Lang". as derived from Perche in France.[14]
See also
References
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- ↑ How India clothed the world: the world of South Asian textiles, 1500–1850, volume 4 of Global Economic History series, p. 440, Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy, Om Prakash, published by Brill, 2009, Template:ISBN.
- ↑ "Fabric Glossary". Dotmaison magazine.
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- ↑ "percale, n. and adj.", Draft Revision Dec. 2005, Oxford English Dictionary
- ↑ "percale", The American Heritage Dictionaries, at answers.com
- ↑ A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary: including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature, being, Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary, revised, enlarged, and entirely reconstructed, The World's Most Detailed and Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Francis Joseph Steingass, Asian Educational Services, 1992. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Diccionari Aguiló: materials lexicogràfics / aplegats per Marià Aguiló i Fuster; revisats i publicats sota la cura de Pompeu Fabra i Manuel de Montoliu, page 134, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona 1929.
- ↑ Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana: O-Qu.- 1986, cop. 1985.- 977 p, page 464, Joan Corominas, Joseph Gulsoy, Max Cahner, Curial Edicions Catalanes, 1995. Template:ISBN
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