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14-660: Kersey may refer to: Kersey (cloth) , a coarse cloth Places [ edit ] Canada Kersey, Alberta United Kingdom Kersey, Suffolk , a village in England United States Kersey, Colorado Kersey, Indiana Kersey, Pennsylvania People [ edit ] Kersey (surname) Kersey Coates (1823–1887), American businessman, developed Kansas City, Missouri Kersey Graves (1813–1883), American skeptic, atheist and spiritualist Characters [ edit ] Kersey ,

28-416: A mechanical finishing process that exposes the material to an abrasive surface, creating a small, soft pile. The abrasion mechanism may be equipped with sandpaper , emery paper or carbon brushes. The abrasive material on the machine's rollers cuts and shreds surface fibres, resulting in a soft texture with a short pile. Alcantara and Ultrasuede are trademarked names for a plush microfiber with

42-425: A dense, warm fabric with a smooth back. This article about textiles is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nap (textile) Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth , such as velvet or moleskin . Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat . Starting around

56-482: A hare in the novel Rakkety Tam by Brian Jaques Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kersey . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kersey&oldid=993444577 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

70-450: A nap or pile. In the finishing process of manufacturing textiles , after the cloth is woven, it goes through processes such as washing, fulling , raising the nap and trimming the nap. After the nap is trimmed, the fabric is considered finished. The raising process, which draws out the ends of the fibres, is done on both woollen and cotton fabric. Flannelette is a cotton fabric that goes through this process. There are ways to 'raise

84-410: A special pile given to the cloth. The term pile refers to raised fibres that are there on purpose, rather than as a by-product of producing the cloth. In this case, the nap is woven into the cloth, often by weaving loops into the fabric, which can then be cut or left intact. Carpets , rugs, velvet , velour , and velveteen , are made by interlacing a secondary yarn through woven cloth, creating

98-495: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kersey (cloth) It derives its name from kersey yarn and ultimately from the village of Kersey, Suffolk , having presumably originated in that region. However the cloth was made in many places. It was being woven as early as 1262 in Andover, Hampshire , where regulations prohibited the inclusion of Spanish wool in kerseys. By 1475,

112-470: The Canary Islands . Kersey yarns were spun in large gauges (thicknesses) from inferior carded wool, and made thick and sturdy cloth. Kersey was a warp -backed, twill -weave cloth woven on a four-treadle loom . As a rule, half the relatively small, numerous and closely set warp ends [threads] were struck with a big kersey weft in a two-and-two, unbalanced and highly prominent twill. The rest of

126-399: The 14th century, the word referred originally to the roughness of woven cloth before it was sheared . When cloth, especially woollen cloth, is woven, the surface of the cloth is not smooth, and this roughness is the nap. Generally the cloth is then "sheared" to create an even surface, and the nap is thus removed. A person who trimmed the surface of cloth with shears to remove any excess nap

140-482: The West Riding of Yorkshire including Calderdale was also a major producer, while Devon and Somerset were major producers and exporters until the manufacture later moved to serge making. Kersey was a lighter weight cloth than broadcloth . English kerseys were widely exported to central Europe and other places: a surviving business letter from the end of the 16th century recommends trading kerseys for good wine on

154-444: The ends were simultaneously struck in a one-and-three twill, so they appeared mainly on the back of the cloth, while the back-warp stitches on the face of the cloth were concealed among the face-warp threads. One of the secrets of weaving a good kersey lay in combining the adequate stitching of the weft by the back warp with the concealment of the back-warp stitches. The back of the cloth was napped and shorn after fulling , producing

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168-403: The nap', most of which involve wire brushes such as raising cards . Originally, dried teasel pods were used and were still preferred for use on woollen cloth for a long time. Woollen fabrics, which must be damp when raising the nap, are then dried and stretched before the nap is trimmed or sheared. Cotton cloth goes straight to the shearing process, where the nap gets trimmed to ensure that all

182-399: The raised fibres are the same length. Fabric sueding is carried out on a sueding machine with abrasive covered rollers; the machines can suede both sides of fabric, whether woven or knitted. Creasing and variations in the center selvedge are two major concerns with sueded fabrics. Fabrics that have been sueded or emerized are known as 'sueded fabrics' or 'emerized fabrics.' Sueding is

196-435: Was known as a shearman. Nap typically has a direction in which it feels smoothest. In garments, nap direction is often matched across seams, because cloth will not only feel but look different depending on the direction of the nap. For this reason, sewing patterns frequently show the nap direction, or warn that more fabric will be needed if the fabric has a nap. Since the 15th century, the term nap has generally referred to

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