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CAMBLET

Volume 2 · 141 words · 1771 Edition

or Camlet, a plain stuff, composed of a warp and woof, which is manufactured on a loom, with two treddles, as linens and flannels are.

There are camblets of several sorts, some of goat's hair, both in the warp and woof; others, in which the warp is of hair, and the woof half hair and half silk; others again, in which both the warp and the woof are of wool; and lastly, some of which the warp is of wool and the woof of thread. Some are dyed in thread, others are dyed in the piece, others are marked or mixed; some are striped, some woven or watered, and some figured.

Camblets are proper for several uses, according to their different kinds and qualities; some serve to make garments both for men and women; some for bed-curtains; others for household-furniture, &c.