Pekin Stripes

Pekin Stripes
PEKIN STRIPES
The term given to stripe fabrics in which the different coloured stripes are all the same width; generally silk cloths are meant, but cotton Pekin stripes have been made. The goods are for the China markets. In the Bradford trade, Pekin stripes are manufactured from cotton warp and worsted weft, in many stripe arrangements and numerous qualities. One cloth is made 48 ends and 58 picks per inch, 2/100's fast black cotton warp, 24's mohair weft.

Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.

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