Plate No. 075fabric
The chore-coat standard.
- First documented
- 1700s
- Origin
- Netherlands and England, Netherlands
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- tight plain weave, plied yarns
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 075 · fabric
Duck
Cotton duck is canvas at its most disciplined: a tight plain weave of plied yarns, graded by a numbered system in which lower numbers mean heavier cloth, from number 1 duck that stands up by itself down to light awning grades. The name is the Dutch word for cloth, carried into English through the sailcloth trade. Duck is the surface of work: sails, tents, sneakers, artist canvas, fire hoses, and the chore coats whose ducks brown has become a workwear color in its own right.
Named for
From the Dutch doek, cloth: nothing to do with the bird.
Sources & References
- 1.Cotton duck, Wikipedia
- 2.Canvas, Wikipedia