Anyone know of a source for this fabric? ....

Anyone know of a source for this fabric? ....

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...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Is it like a lightweight (almost handkerchief-weight) cotton, which could mean it's pillow ticking? (You can Google for pillow ticking and see if it looks the same.)

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

I don't click on a PDF any more often than I can help, but the comments sounds as though you guys are talking about a ticking stripe. Early in the twentieth century, downproof fabric for making feather ticks -- the cases of pillows and featherbeds -- was a strong, dense, twill-woven cotton that always had narrow yarn-dyed stripes each consisting of a very narrow indigo stripe flanked by a pair of two-thread indigo stripes. The background was white, but not a brilliantly-bleached white. Black threads might be substituted for indigo-dyed threads after black dyes got cheap enough to use on utilitarian fabrics.

This pattern continued to symbolize bedding for a long time after we quit stuffing our pillows with goose feathers, and is still sometimes called a "ticking stripe" when printed on or woven into modern fabrics.

None of the "ticking striped" fabrics I've seen lately are actually ticking.

Joy Beeson

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