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Sateen vs Cambric - What's the difference?

sateen | cambric |

As nouns the difference between sateen and cambric

is that sateen is a type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin while cambric is a finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.

sateen

English

Noun

(wikipedia sateen)
  • A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    cambric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cambrick (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia cambric)
  • A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
  • * 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851
  • Scotch cambric', now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation ' cambric , made from fine hard-twisted cotton.

    Synonyms

    * batiste