Blazer Cloths

BLAZER CLOTHS

Are wool fabrics made into garments for sports wear. Dyed worsted yams are used and either all one colour or in stripes. Usually 5-end satin weave. One quality is 29-in., 116 X 68, 2/50's/2/50's worsted. Lower cloths are made with cotton weft. A variety is made from all wool, heavily milled, raised and then printed in the stripe designs needed for sports wear. Usually made about 42 X 44 per inch, 24 skeins warp and weft. Imitation blazer cloths are made from two-fold yarns with a percentage of cotton, such as 2/50's warp and 2/40's weft, 60 per cent wool, 40 per cent cotton.