Lustre Cloths

Lustre Cloths
LUSTRE CLOTHS
These are unions of cotton and wool - usually cotton warp and Alpaca, mohair, or other lustre wool weft. Such fabrics as alpacas, Brilliantines, Glaces, Sicilians, etc., are lustres. A typical lustre cloth is made plain weave 50-in. wide, 40 ends and 48 picks per inch, 2/80's dyed cotton warp and 16's mohair weft. Reeded one end in a dent. The warp is dyed black. This cloth is a Sicilian.

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