Plush
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A short encyclopedia entry on plush from Rees's Cyclopaedia. It describes plush as a fabric with a velvet-like nap, made with a wool weft and a double warp of wool and goats' or camels' hair. It explains weaving on a three-treadle loom and cutting the pile over a brass broach with a knife. It also notes disputed origins in England or Holland and the French centers of manufacture at Amiens, Abbeville and Compiègne, plus all-silk varieties.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
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- 1
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