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Encyclopedia > Flannel
A young man wearing a tartan flannel shirt.
A young man wearing a tartan flannel shirt.

Flannel a warm fabric of various degrees of weight and fineness, usually made from loosely spun yarn. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... A tartan is type of pattern, originating in woven cloth, but now used in many materials. ...


Flannel is a light-to-medium weight woven cloth commonly used to make clothing and bedsheets. It was originally made from carded wool, but is now often made from either wool and cotton, or wool and synthetic fibre. Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Woven sheet Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... It has been suggested that Textile be merged into this article or section. ... Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather, other features of our environment, and for safety reasons. ... This article is about magazine format. ... Carding Llama hair Carding is the processing of brushing raw or washed fibers to prepare them as textiles. ... Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona Wool is the fiber derived from the fur of animals and people of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats and rabbits and oxes... Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona Wool is the fiber derived from the fur of animals and people of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats and rabbits and oxes... Cotton ready for harvest. ...


The term "flannel" is also often used to refer directly to the clothing created from flannelette. Today, many so-called flannels are made with a large mixture of cotton or synthetic fibres. These are, in some countries called flannelettes. In fact, in some countries (e.g. the United Kingdom), it is illegal to sell flannelettes under the name 'flannel'.


In the United States, the terminology is slightly different. The term 'flannelette' is not used, and 'flannel' frequently refers to 100% cotton fabrics. It is also unusual to use the term to refer directly to a garment.


Flannel and flannelette can be woven in either a tight twill weave or a plain weave, although this is often obscured by napping one or both sides. After weaving, it is napped once, then bleached, dyed, or otherwise treated, and then napped a second time. A twill weave can easily be identified by its diagonal lines. ... Nap or nap can refer to: a short sleep. ... In chemistry, to bleach something generally means to whiten it or oxidize it. ... A dye can generally be described as a coloured substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. ...

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History

Flannel was a well-known product of Wales. It has been made since the 17th century, having gradually replaced, as the local textile product, the older Welsh plains, some of which were finished as 'cottons' or friezes. In the 19th century, it was made, particularly Montgomeryshire in towns such as Newtown, Montgomeryshire[1], Hay on Wye,[2] and Llanidloes[3] The expansion of its production is closely associated with the spread of carding mills, which prepared the wool for spinning, this being the first aspect of the production of woollen cloth to be mechanised (apart from fulling). The marketting of these Welsh woollen clothes was largely controlled by the Drapers Company of Shrewsbury.[4] This article is about the country. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... “fabric” redirects here. ... In the history of textiles frieze is a Middle English term for a coarse woolen cloth with a nap on one side, made from Frisian wool. ... Montgomeryshire (Welsh: Sir Drefaldwyn) is an inland traditional county of Wales. ... Newtown (Welsh: Y Drenewydd) is a town with a population of 10,542 (1993) lying on the River Severn in mid Wales. ... Second-hand bookshop at Hay-on-Wye Hay-on-Wye (Welsh: or Y Gelli), often described as the town of books, is a market town in Powys, Wales. ... {{|Population= 2314 |Place= Llanidloes |Council= Powys |Traditional= Montgomeryshire |Ceremonial= Powys |Constituency= Montgomeryshire |PostalTown= LLANIDLOES |PostCode= SY18 |DiallingCode= +44-1686 (4) |GridReference= SN954844 |OldMapsYear= 1891 |OldMapsEasting= 295500 |OldMapsNorthing= 284500 |OldMapsCounty= 10montg511 |Police= Dyfed-Powys Police }} Llanidloes is a town in Powys, traditional county of Montgomeryshire, mid Wales. ... Carding Llama hair Carding is the processing of brushing raw or washed fibers to prepare them as textiles. ... Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a drapers shop or store. ... , Shrewsbury (pronounced either or [1]) is the county town of Shropshire, West Midlands, England. ...


The origin of the word is uncertain, but a Welsh origin has been suggested. The French form fianelle was used late in the 17th century, and the German Flanell early in the 18th century.


Baize, a kind of coarse flannel with a long nap, is said to have been first introduced to England about the middle of the 16th century by refugees from France and the Netherlands. Baize is a coarse woollen or cotton cloth, often coloured red or green. ...


Derivative uses of the word

  • Flannels (q.v.) are cricket attire, originally made of flannel, though now often of other cloth.
  • In the United Kingdom and New Zealand, a flannel refers to a facecloth or washcloth, presumably having originally been made of flannel cloth.
  • In colloquial British English, to flannel is to not answer a question. It is also used in the publishing industry to denote copy of low interest such as the flannel panel, which outlines who does what on a magazine.

Flannels, also known as Whites, is the term used for the kit or uniform worn by cricketers. ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ...

Flannel in popular culture

In North America, flannelette, commonly referred to as flannel, was commonly thought to be the fabric of woodsmen, lumberjacks, tough men and farmers. Today it is commonly used for children's winter pajamas as well as pajama pants for adults. The word woodsman, meaning man of the woods, can be applied to any person coming from or living in a wooded area. ... Lumberjacks in Oregon, c. ... For other uses, see Farmer (disambiguation). ...


In the US, due to the fact that many people in the Pacific Northwest (especially in Seattle, Washington) and Vancouver, British Columbia have had a tendency to wear it, flannel there has become associated with grungers and music. This idea was even further popularized by the fact that many rock, metal and, most notably, grunge musicians from the early 1990s often wore clothing made from it. In addition, flannel also became associated with West Coast gangsta rap for much of the 1990s. Flannel has been thought by some to be a fashion statement (or in some cases an anti-fashion statement), and has been more broadly associated with slackers. The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the United States. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... A grunger is a member of a UK youth subculture of 00s. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... G-funk, an abbreviation of Gangsta-funk, is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. ... For the Ice T album, see Gangsta Rap (album). ... A fashion consists of a current (constantly changing) trend, favoured for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. ... Slacking in the park The term slacker was commonly used in the United States in World War I and World War II to describe men who were avoiding the military draft. ...


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References

  1. ^ http://www.newtown.org.uk/history.htm Newtown History
  2. ^ http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/mwindust.htm
  3. ^ Llanidloes History
  4. ^ A. H. Dodd, Industrial Revolution in North Wales (1931), 229-81; J. Geraint Jenkins, The Welsh Woollen Industry (Cardiff 1969); J. Geraint Jenkins, 'The woollen industry in Montgomeryshire' Montgomeryshrie Collections 58 (1963), 50-69.

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Flannel - LoveToKnow 1911 (428 words)
Baize, a kind of coarse flannel with a long nap, is said to have been first introduced to England about the middle of the 16th century by refugees from France and the Netherlands.
Flannels are frequently made with an admixture of silk or cotton, and in low varieties cotton has tended to become the predominant factor.
Over 2000 persons are employed in flannel manufacture in Rochdale alone, which is the historic seat of the industry, and a good deal of flannel is now made in the Spen Valley district, Yorkshire.
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