cambric
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- Instance of
- textile
- Named after
- Cambrai
- Material used
- cotton
- Image
- Morning blouse (matinee) in white cambric, decorated with embroidery, 1850-1855.jpg
- Said to be same as
- batiste
- Has use
- lingerie
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- Cambric
- fabrication method
- bleaching
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|White applique on linen batiste, a type of cambric, with needlepoint fillings thumb|Morning blouse made of cambric thumb|upright|Corsage (bodice)|Corsage made of cambric (1898)
Cambric or batiste is a fine dense cloth. It is a lightweight plain-weave fabric, originally from the commune of Cambrai (in present-day northern France), woven greige (neither bleached nor dyed), then bleached, piece-dyed, and often glazed or calendered. Initially it was made of linen; from the 18th and 19th centuries the term came to apply to cotton fabrics as well.
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