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Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard".[1]

Formerly, a drugget was a sort of cheap stuff, very thin and narrow, usually made of wool, or half wool and half silk or linen; it may have been corded but was usually plain. The term is now applied to a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling, used for rugs, tablecloths, etc.

Notes

  1. ^ The Uffculme wills and inventories: 16th to 18th centuries, p.272 (Peter Wyatt, Uffculme Archive Group, 1997).

References

  • "drugget". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)