cambric
Delicate white fabric
Cambric is a fine, lightweight white fabric, originally linen but now often cotton.
The fabric was traditionally used for handkerchiefs, baby clothes, and undergarments—anything requiring softness against the skin.
She dabbed her eyes with a cambric handkerchief.
Cambric tea is a drink for children: hot water, milk, and sugar, sometimes with weak tea.
Plant fiber for textiles
- muslinPlain-woven cotton cloth
- batisteFine, sheer woven cloth
- calicoPatchy-coated cat type
- lawnTended yard grass
nainsook · voile · organdy · percale · dimity · textile · weave · thread
Permitting diffused light passage
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
- lightweightLacking mass or importance
- filmyThin and translucent
gauzy · airy · delicate · wispy · fine · soft · ethereal · featherlight
cotton
Plant fiber for textiles
lawn · nainsook · voile · organdy · percale · dimity · textile · weave · thread · loom
translucent
Permitting diffused light passage
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
- lightweightLacking mass or importance
filmy · gauzy · airy · delicate · wispy · fine · soft · ethereal · featherlight · floaty
Flanders
Northern Belgian region
artisan · trade · merchant · heirloom · antique · traditional · handcrafted · European · bleaching · finishing
nursery
Room for infants
Victorian · diluted · bedtime · soothing · warm milk · honey
- textilescotton, wool, silk, fabric, thread
- cotton fabricsmuslin, calico, poplin, chambray, denim
- fabric shopfabric, cloth, linen, muslin, calico
- historic fabricslinen, velvet, damask, brocade, silk
- lightweight fabricsgauze, lawn, cotton gauze, voile, batiste
- linenlinen, linen cloth, flax, linen fabric, linen thread