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thumb|right|Little girl in an organdy dress. Circa 1900. Valencian Museum of Ethnology collection. Organdy, also spelled Organdie, is a kind of fabric. It is a lightweight, balanced plain weave made of cotton with features of sheerness and crispness.

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Instance of
woven fabric
Subclass of
woven fabric
Material used
yarn
Image
Siatka z organdyny (1879).png
Said to be same as
batiste
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different from
organza
Commons category
Organdy
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thumb|right|Little girl in an organdy dress. Circa 1900. Valencian Museum of Ethnology collection. Organdy, also spelled Organdie, is a kind of fabric. It is a lightweight, balanced plain weave made of cotton with features of sheerness and crispness.

== Characteristics == Organdy is a stiffened material; sheerest among its peers, which include lawn cloth and Batiste. Often, these materials may come from the same grey goods, and are differentiated from each other in how they are finished. Organdy's sheerness and crispness are attributed to the acid finish (parchmentising) whereas the lawn cloth is finished with starch or resin, and Batiste is a softer fabric type. Finer yarns with higher twist counts are used in superior quality organdy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “organdy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.