[lace-chat] Re: Name of cotton fabric?

[Jane Partridge]

In message , Tamara P 
Duvall  writes

Pique? We called it "pika", in Polish and it was quite popular when I
was a little girl. But, of course, what was popular in Poland didn't,
necessarily, "translate" into Brit scene...


According to Tootal, Pique has weft backing threads - the fabric sample 
which illustrates this is of Bedford Cord, in which "warp threads are 
tightly crammed, and formed into the characteristic chords by coarser 
additional backing threads in the warp." ("Some Notes on Textile 
Manufacture" prepared by Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company Ltd, January 
1955)


Seersucker did leap to mind, but it always appeared square rather than 
round or oval in the "bumps". I wondered about a dobby weave (though 
that I had for my wedding wasn't "blistered") or one of the spotted 
fabrics - poplin or voile. Jean's description makes it sound as if it 
was woven as a partial double cloth, at least, to give the blister 
effect.

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[lace-chat] Re: Name of cotton fabric?

[Tamara P Duvall]

On Aug 3, 2009, at 14:29, Jean Nathan wrote:

I was chatting with a friend reminiscing about what we used to wear in  
the 1950s/60s. She mentioned a cotton fabric that we had summer  
dresses made from which had raised oval or round "blisters" all over  
it. Neither of us could remember what it was called. Anyone remember  
it and what it was called?


Pique? We called it "pika", in Polish and it was quite popular when I  
was a little girl. But, of course, what was popular in Poland didn't,  
necessarily, "translate" into Brit scene...


http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=pique%2Bfabric&um=1&ie=UTF 
-8&ei=rkN3Ssa9JpOqNtiZzIgL&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4


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Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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