Plate No. 010fabric
Blue & White
Madder & White
Ochre & White
- First documented
- c. 1700s
- Origin
- South Asia, India
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- slack-tension plain weave
- Family
- stripes
Plate No. 010 · fabric
Seersucker
Seersucker is a cotton fabric whose puckered stripes are woven, not printed, by holding some warp threads slack while others are taut. The raised stripes lift the cloth off the skin, which is why it became summer suiting in hot climates and a fixture of the American South. The pucker survives washing because it is structural rather than a finish.
Named for
From the Persian shir o shakkar, milk and sugar, by way of Hindi, describing the cloth's smooth and puckered stripes side by side.
Sources & References
- 1.Seersucker, Wikipedia
- 2.seersucker, Online Etymology Dictionary