Any fabric used to cover furniture, it can be manufactured from any fibre or combination of fibres.

The amount of twist in a yarn plays an important part in determining its character, in particular its hardness or softness and strength. Variation in twist will have a considerable effect on the appearance of a fabric and shows in the dyeing and finishing.

A basic weave characterised by a diagonal rib, or twill line, generally running upward from left to right.

Tram is a medium twisted thread formed by twisting 2 to 3 silk yarns together with low twists per metre. It is moderately strong, soft with a good handle (feel) and is mostly used as weft.

The French term is used for woven fabric. A figured silk with more than one weft colour used to produce figuring of a different style and colour. Up to 8 weft colours can be used continuously or in bars. See Lampas.

A plain weave fabric usually in all wool.

Made with a silk warp to create dense satin warp stripes with a filling rib is usually cotton or linen. This structure often has a moiré finish applied. See Moiré.

A short test length of fabric is specially woven to check the design and colour placement. A strike-off blanket may have more than one warp colour and/or more than one weft colouring to select from. This is a swatch with no commercial value or end-use.

A fine stripe or streaky effect, created in the length of the fabric produced by random warp yarns having been dyed in a variety of tones of the same colour.

The weft colour is available from our range.

The warp is a colour that we run in the mill on an ongoing basis.

Synonym for fibre. A term used to indicate lengths of fibre require spinning and twisting in the manufacture of yarn.