Plate No. 076fabric
The spruce green that carries the cloth's name.
- First documented
- Middle Ages
- Origin
- Tyrol, Austria, Austria
- Fiber
- wool
- Weave
- woolen twill, fulled and brushed
- Family
- twills
Plate No. 076 · fabric
Loden
Loden is the alpine weatherproof: a coarse mountain wool woven loose, then fulled, napped, and shorn repeatedly until it becomes a dense, almost felted cloth that sheds rain and wind without any coating. Tyrolean peasants wore it for centuries before Austrian and Bavarian gentry adopted it for hunting, fixing the deep spruce color called loden green. The loden cape, with its characteristic back pleat, crossed from the Alps into international fashion and stayed, one of the few garments named for its cloth.
Named for
From the Old High German lodo, coarse cloth; the deep green it is dyed has its own name, loden green.
Sources & References
- 1.Loden cape, Wikipedia
- 2.loden, Wiktionary