Cerise Cloth

CERISE CLOTH

A dress fabric made on check looms using a worsted warp, white or dyed and 2, 3 or 4 wefts in various colours. The warp and one weft are the same colour, say white; if two only are used the second weft, say red, will form a stripe on the face of the cloth on a white ground. The weft forming the stripe is wool and the ground weft worsted. One quality is made 72-in. (loom), 46-ends 30's white worsted per inch, 43 picks 30's white worsted for ground, and 43 picks of 6's run in red per inch. Woven pick and pick, as design, on 12 shafts. The weight is 11¹/₂-oz. per yard. The cloth is felted and nap finished, and the result is clear-cut stripes on the face and back. In the design illustrated dots show red wool picks forming stripe, and full squares the ground picks