Flannel

Description

A soft, slightly napped fabric made of wool or cotton. A medium weight twill weave flannel may be made into shirts, jackets, or trousers, while a lighter weight, often plain weave flannel, is used for children's sleepwear, sheets and undergarments. Flannel may be napped on one or both sides, while a similar fabric, flannelette is only napped on one side.

Synonyms and Related Terms

flannelette; Flanell (Deut., Sven.); flanela; (Pol.); franela (Esp.); (flanellen) doekje; flanel, katoenflanel; flanellen kleding (Ned);

Other Properties

If fibers are too short, cotton flannel may shed or pill.

Authority

• Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Dictionary of Fiber & Textile Technology (older version called Man-made Fiber and Textile Dictionary, 1965), Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Charlotte NC, 1990

• Edward Reich, Carlton J. Siegler, Consumer Goods: How to Know and Use Them, American Book Company, New York City, 1937

• Website address 1 Comment: www.fabrics.net (Accessed Sept. 1, 2001)

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannel (Accessed Nov. 2, 2005)

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000