Terrycloth

MFA Acc. #: 2005.1266

Description

A looped pile fabric, usually made with cotton. Terrycloth is made from a ground cloth using additional warp threads that protrude in small loops on one or both sides. It is very absorbent and is used in robes and towels. French terrycloth has looped pile on one side and sheared pile on the other.

Synonyms and Related Terms

terry cloth; terry toweling; Turkish towel; French terrycloth; tejido de rizo (Esp.)

Additional Images

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  Bleached cotton terrycloth with optical brightener

Sources Checked for Data in Record

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 248

• Hermann Kuhn, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities, Butterworths, London, 1986

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

• 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

• Website address 1 Comment: www.fabrics.net