Kersey

Kersey is a coarse, hard-wearing woolen, woven as a narrow twill and fulled to a dense, slightly ribbed cloth. For centuries it was one of England's great export staples, the workaday partner to the finer broadcloth, made up into hose, breeches, work clothes, and soldiers' coats across medieval and early modern Europe. Cheap, warm, and durable, it clothed ordinary people and armies rather than courts, and its name, like so many English cloths, is simply the village where it was first made.