Plate No. 171fabric
- First documented
- 1600s
- Origin
- France, France
- Fiber
- wool, linen
- Weave
- coarse plain weave, wool or wool on a linen warp
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 171 · fabric
Drugget
Drugget is a coarse, inexpensive cloth of wool, or wool woven on a linen warp, made for hard everyday use. From the seventeenth century it served as cheap clothing for laborers and, later, as a protective floor covering laid over carpet or boards. It was deliberately plain and cheap, a utility cloth rather than a fashion one, and its name became shorthand for humble, serviceable material. Where finer cloths were named for their luster, drugget was named for its thrift.
Named for
From the French droguet, from drogue in its old sense of a cheap or trifling thing; the cloth was named for its thrift rather than its luster.
Also known as
droguet
Modern equivalent
The closest cloth in this catalogue you can source today.
