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FLANNELETTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLANNELETTE , a See also:

cotton See also:cloth made to imitate See also:flannel. The word seems to have been first used in the See also:early 'eighties, and there is a reference in the Daily See also:News of 1887 to " a poverty-stricken See also:article called flannelette." Now it is used very extensively for underclothing, See also:night See also:gear, dresses, dressing-gowns, shirts, &c. It is usually made with a much coarser weft than warp, and its flannel-like See also:appearance is obtained by the wising or scratching up of this weft, and by various See also:finishing processes. Some kinds are raised equally on both sides, and the See also:nap may be See also:long or See also:short according to the purpose for which the cloth is required. A considerable See also:trade is done in See also:plain cloths dyed, and also in See also:woven coloured stripes and checks, but almost any heavy or coarse cotton cloth can be made into flannelette. It is now largely used by the poorer classes of the community, and the flimsier kinds have been a frequent source of See also:accident by See also:fire. It is, however, when used discreetly and in a See also:fair quality, a cheap and useful article. A flannelette, patented under the See also:title of " Non-flam," has been made with fire-resisting properties, but its See also:sale has been more in the better qualities than in the See also:lower and more dangerous ones. Flannelette is made largely on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, and in the See also:United States as well as in See also:Great See also:Britain.

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