Bombazine
Twill fabric
title: "Bombazine" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["woven-fabrics", "16th-century-fashion", "17th-century-fashion"] description: "Twill fabric" topic_path: "general/woven-fabrics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombazine" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Twill fabric ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Outfit_(AM_17928-2).jpg" caption="Black bombazine with lace edging and beading"] ::
Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and more recently also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine has a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material: commonly in dresses, skirts, and jackets. It was a heavy and dense fabric, with a fine diagonal rib that ran through the weave of the fabric. Black bombazine was used largely for mourning wear in 16th-century and 17th-century Europe, |last1 = Taylor |first1 = Lou |year = 2009 |orig-date = 1983 |chapter = Appendix 1: A selection of popular mourning fabrics |title = Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Jz-OAgAAQBAJ |series = Routledge Revivals |publisher = Routledge |page = 247 |isbn = 9781135228439 |access-date = 21 January 2023 |quote = Bombazine or Bombasin[:] A fabric with a silk warp and worsted weft with a twilled finish, with worsted on the face side to give the fabric the dull finish required for mourning. but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century.
Etymologists derive the English term "bombazine" from an Anatolian word in Greek: βόμβυξ ("silkworm"), via Latin bombyx ("silkworm") and the obsolete French term bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton. Bombazine is said to have been made in England in the time of Elizabeth I (), and early in the 19th century it was largely made at Norwich.
References
References
- {{EB1911
- {{EB1911
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::