Flannelette is a light, napped cotton the texture of flannel. The weft is generally coarser than the warp. The flannel-like appearance is created by creating a nap from the weft; scratching it and raising it up. Flannelette can either have long or short nap, and can be napped on one or two sides. It comes in many colours, both solid and patterned.
The word seems to have been first used in the early 1880s. In the 1900s flannelette was used, predominantly by poorer classes, very extensively for underclothing, night wear, dresses, dressing-gowns and shirts, and it is still used in much the same way today. The fabric was quite flammable and was known to catch fire, consequently a flannelette, patented under the title of Non-flam, was made with fire-resisting properties. Flannelette is made throughout Europe and the United States.
Flannelette is normally called flannel or cotton flannel in North America, where the term flannelette is not used. In the United Kingdom, however, it is illegal to sell flannelettes under the name flannel.
Winceyette is a lightweight cotton fabric with a slightly raised two-sided nap. The name derives from wincey, a Scottish term for the fabric linsey-woolsey.
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