Plate No. 135fabric
A fine, dense, soft plain cotton, the staple of the India trade.
- First documented
- 1700s
- Origin
- Madapollam, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- fine, soft, dense plain weave
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 135 · fabric
Madapollam
Madapollam is a fine, soft, closely woven plain cotton, slightly heavier than muslin and lighter than calico, named for the town and East India Company factory on India's Godavari delta that exported it. It was one of the standard plain white cottons of the long India trade, bleached and used for shirts, sheeting, and as a ground for printing and embroidery. Where scrim is the loosest useful plain weave, madapollam sits at the dense, fine end of the same structure, and the two together bracket the range of the plain cotton cloth.
Named for
Named for Madapollam, the town and former East India Company factory on the Godavari delta where the cloth was made.
Sources & References
- 1.Madapollam, Wikipedia
- 2.Cotton, Wikipedia