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fulling
thumb|Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a [[waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours)]]
broadcloth
thumb|Wool broadcloth jacket, . LACMA M.65.8a-d thumb| The dark purple broadcloth and gold outfit of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632 thumb|Littoinen broadcloth factory, Finland
duffle coat
coat made of heavy, coarse woolen fabric with toggle closures
baize
thumb|upright=1.4|A baize-covered snooker table
wadmal
thumb|Wadmal army jacket from the Hälsinge Regiment. thumb|Girls' wadmal dress right|thumb|Faroese postage stamp with a picture of a Viking helmsman in a wadmal tunic. Wadmal (Old Norse: ; Norwegian: , 'cloth measure') is a coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, and the Orkney, Faroe and Shetland Islands from the Middle Ages into the 18th century. Wadmal was woven on the warp-weighted loom used throughout these areas of Norwegian influence, and was usually a 2/2 twill weave, although some medieval sources outside Iceland describe wadmal
cheviot
woven fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep
duvetyne
Duvetyne, or duvetyn, (also known as Molton and Rokel) is a twill fabric with a velvet-like nap on one side. Duvetyne has a matte finish and its high opacity makes it ideal for blocking light.
drugget
Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard".
frieze
coarse Medieval woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side; later a sturdy carpet and upholstery fabric
melton
dense, fulled, napped and sheared wool cloth, sometimes made on a cotton warp, usually in a twill-weave