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Muslin vs Canvas - What's the difference?

muslin | canvas |

As nouns the difference between muslin and canvas

is that muslin is any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth while canvas is a type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

As a verb canvas is

to cover an area or object with canvas.

muslin

English

(wikipedia muslin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
  • *1875 , Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary , Vol.2 p.1502:
    • A bleached or unbleached thin white cotton cloth, unprinted and undyed. [Nineteen varieties are thereafter listed.]
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • (lb) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
  • *1875 , Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary , Vol.2 pp.1502−3:
  • *:Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins , and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.
  • A term used for a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen.
  • (lb) Woven cotton or linen fabrics, especially when used for items other than garments.
  • A dressmaker's pattern made from inexpensive cloth for fitting.

    • References

    * http://www.fabrics-manufacturers.com/muslin.html

    canvas

    English

    (wikipedia canvas)

    Noun

    (en-noun) (see usage notes)
  • A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 556.
    • The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \
  • A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
  • A basis for creative work.
    • The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies .
  • (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
  • (nautical) sails in general
  • A tent.
    • He spent the night under canvas .
  • A painting, or a picture on canvas.
    • (Goldsmith)
  • * Macaulay
    • Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
  • A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
    • (Grabb)

    • Usage notes

    The plural is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cover an area or object with canvas.