Jute weft and cotton warp are common materials for Axminster carpets.
Cheaper grades are woven with a rayon warp and worsted or cotton weft.
By 1620 a new industrial era had begun with the weaving of fustian, a cloth with a linen warp but a cotton weft.
Crewel work, type of free-style embroidery distinguished not by the stitches employed but by the two-ply worsted wool yarn called crewel used for embroidering the design on a twill foundation (i.e., linen warp and cotton weft) or sometimes on pure linen or cotton cloth.
Characterised by a natural and indigo warp and weft, the robust cotton twill fabric in the 19th Century was used to make trousers worn by sailors from Genoa in Italy, regarded by some as the ancestor of the jean, with the French word for Genoa – Gênes – said to have inspired the word jean.
These were worked on a new fabric, a natural twill weave from Bruges with a linen warp and cotton weft.
Fustian, fabric originally made by weaving two sets of cotton wefts, or fillings, on a linen warp, popular during the European Middle Ages.
Though it has a similar weave, serge is made from wool, whereas denim has always been constructed from cotton, with a weft that passes under two or more warp threads.
Good solidity of hue and depth is more critical in 50 50 blends and in union fabrics, such as nylon warp stretch fabrics, containing cotton or nylon/cotton wefts for swim wear and narrow fabrics, crimped nylon warp/viscose filament dress wear, or cotton warp/nylon weft constructions for uniforms, rain wear or work wear.
They are mostly of all wool, but some tribes use cotton in the wefts.
