Plate No. 131fabric
Small raised dots on a sheer cotton ground.
- First documented
- 1700s
- Origin
- Switzerland, Switzerland
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- sheer cotton with small raised or flocked dots
- Family
- dots
Plate No. 131 · fabric
Dotted Swiss
Dotted Swiss is a sheer, crisp cotton scattered with small raised dots, traditionally woven in as tiny clipped tufts (swivel dots) or, later, flocked or printed on. The Swiss perfected the fine cotton weaving that gave it its name in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the airy dotted cloth became a staple of summer dresses, blouses, christening gowns, and curtains. The dots are its whole character: a plain, almost gauzy ground made charming by a regular field of raised points.
Named for
Named for Switzerland, where the technique of weaving small raised dots into fine cotton was perfected; also called Swiss dot.
Sources & References
- 1.Dotted swiss, Wikipedia
- 2.Cotton, Wikipedia