Different labels of plain weave

Plain weave
(cotton or calico weave)
(tabby or Taffeta weave) 

A

Albatross (woolen, cotton)

Armoisin, Armosin (silk)

Armure

B
Bandana
Balloon cloth
Batiste (cotton)
Bengaline (Faille for silk, cotton, woollen)
Blanket (cotton, woollen)
Bourette
Broadcloth (woollen)
Buckram (woollen)
Burlap, gunny ou Hessian cloth (jute)
Butcher's linen

C
Calico (cotton)
Cambric (cotton)
Camel's hair
Canton crêpe
Canton linen
Canvas (cotton)
Casement cloth
Cassimere
Challie or Challis
Chambray (cotton)
Cheesecloth
Cheviot shirting (woollen)
Chiffon (silk)
China silk (silk)
Chintz (cotton)
Cretonne (cotton)
Crêpe de chine (silk)

Crêpe Georgette (silk)
Crêpe marocain (silk)
Crêpe mérino
Crêpe romain (2 threads together and 2 picks in the shed)
Crépon (cotton)
Crinoline

D
Dimity
Domet
Duck

E
Etamine
Eolienne
Epinglé
End on end (see : Fil à fil )

F
Faille see : Bengaline
Fil à fil
Flannel ( woollen)
Flannelette (cotton)
Florentine (silk)


G
Gingham common
Grenadine de lyon (silk)
Grosgrain (silk)
Gros d'Alger (silk)
Gros des indes (silk)


H
Habutae or Habutai (silk)
Hair cloth
Haïtienne (plain)
Hecowa
Hessian cloth (jute); see :  Burlap
Homespun

I


J
Jaconet or jaconas (cotton) 
Jute fabrics
Javanese - Javanaise

K

L
Lawn
Linen and metis

M
Madras (cotton)
Marceline (silk)
Marocain, Moroccan crêpe
Melton ou Pilou
Métis see : Linen and metis
Muslin, Mousseline (silk)
(La) Moire (in french)

N
Nainsook (cotton)
Noils

O
Osnaburg
Organdy ou organza (cotton)

P
Percale
Percaline
Pilou ou Melton
Pocketing
Poplin
Poplinette
Pongee (silk)
Poult de soie

R
Radium
Raw silk

S
Scrim
Seersucker
Shantung

T
Taffetas, Taffeta weave or Tabby
Taffetas à chaînes multiples
Taffetas changeant
Taffetas caméléon
Taffetas doublé
Taffetas double face
Taffetas écossais
Taffetas glacé
Taffetas imprimé sur chaine
Taffetas rayé
Tarlatane (cotton)
Toile à bluter
Toile de Jouy
Toile de soie
Toile de soie brodée
Tussah, Tussor

U


V
Veloutine
Voile

W
Wool 100%


Z
Zéphir

Variety of texture (with cotton)

Plain weave

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Madras

 First made in Madras, India for sailors' headdresses. I. Soft, cotton fabric for shirts. May be white, yarn-dyed or printed. Usually mercerized. May contain rayon. Many fancy effects in weaving as corded stripe or small figure. Uses: shirts, blouses, pajamas. Weave—plain or fancy. 

Plain Haïtienne

Moroccan crepe, Crêpe marocain

dyed fabric

Gray fabric

Moroccan crepe, also known as crepe marocain, is a heavy textured, woven, ribbed crepe fabric made of silk, rayon or wool. It is made using heavily twisted yarns in the weft, resulting in the characteristic wavy, ribbed texture. It is used to make dresses and suits.

Poult de soie

Javanese

QUALITY : Javanese (100% viscose, rayon)

USE : printing background for clothing

Shantung

Shantung.   Heavy grade of pongee, or cotton fabric or silk

and cotton mixture. 

Seersucker

Seersucker. I. Light-weight cotton fabric, with alternating crinkled stripes. 

It exists 2 kind of seersucker

1/100% cotton seersucker :

With weave differences in the stripes or with weave tension differences in the weaving process, you can get a good crinkle effect after having your cotton seercucker fabric dyed.

2/ PES/Cotton seersucker

With polyester stripes, cotton stripes and a soda treatment, you can get a crinkle effect because the differences between the textile materials don't have the same warp contractions after the treatment.

Scrim

Scrim is coarser than voile, usually mercerized, white, ecru,

plain or fancy woven or printed border.    Uses:   curtains
needlework.  Weave-plain

Poplinette

pocketing lining shirt

Percaline

Percaline. Fine, thin piece-dyed cotton lining material, sized and highly calendered or moired. White or colored. Use: linings.  Weave—plain. 

Nainsook

Nainsook. Fine, soft-finished white cotton fabric with a polish on one side. Lighter in weight than longcloth, more highly finished; not so closely woven as cambric but heavier than batiste. Sometimes mercerized and schreinerized. A fine nainsook may be called a coarse batiste. Uses: infants' wear, lingerie. Weave—plain

noils

Noils. Short fibres which come from the combing process in preparing yarns as for worsted. Short wool fibres are wool noils.  There are silk noils, ramie noils, cotton noils.

Jute fabric

Jute fabric

Linen and metis

linen warp and weft

warp : linen weft cotton

warp cotton weft linen
(métis)

Philana

Swiss cotton,  Nm 120/1
plain weave

Percale

Percale. Closely woven, printed cotton fabric, stiff finish, heavier, finer and wider than calico. Service depends on yarn count. Typical counts, 64x60, 72x76, 80x80 in the gray. Count differs after finishing processes. Printed either by direct or discharge method. May be all white. Uses: women's and children's dresses, men's shirts, boys' blouses, aprons.  

Pocketing

Taffeta, plain weave

Low quality