Boudoir Pillow
Also known as breakfast pillow or lumbar pillow size 12 x 16 or 12 x 18

Candlewick
Tufted fabric, generally made from cotton, often for bedspreads

Cashmere Touch
Usually made of cotton with the touch of fine, soft cashmere

Chambray
Lightweight, plain weave cotton cloth with a dyed warp and white weft.

Combed Cotton
Cotton yarns and fabrics where longer, better quality fibers have been combed after carding and before spinning. Combed cotton yarns and fabrics are more expensive because of the additional processing involved, and the better quality of the raw material.

Cotton
Natural vegetable seed fiber from the cotton plant

Damask
Figured fabric, originally a single color, where the figure and the ground are in contrasting weaves, generally warp-satin and weft-sateen. Traditionally used for expensive table linen, now also for fashion, bedding and sometimes made using more than one color.

Egyptian Cotton
Type of cotton characterized by long, fine fibers

Flannel (Cotton)
Cotton that has been napped, a finishing process where some of the fibers are lifted, or raised, creating softness.

Jacquard
(1) A type of loom where the patterning mechanism allows individual control on the interlacing of up to several hundred warp threads.
(2) A fabric woven on a jacquard loom.

Lambs Wool
Wool from the fleeces of lambs, the first clip.

Matelasse
Originated from the French word meaning cushioned or padded. A double-woven fabric with quilted character or raised patterns for an intricate and multi dimensional design. Made on a jacquard loom.

Merino Wool
Wool from the merino sheep, which produces the shortest and finest wool fibers.

Percale
Closely woven plain weave fabric, dyed or printed, made of carded yarns. Finer sheeting is made of combed cotton or Egyptian cotton.

Piece-dyed
Describes fabric that has been dyed at the fabric stage of processing.

Sateen
Woven structure where the maximum amount of the weft shows on the face. Using filament yarns and or lustrous fibers enhances the smooth effect.

Sea Island Cotton
Type of cotton with the longest and finest fibers.

Silk
Natural animal protein fiber obtained from the cocoons produced by silkworms.

Tufted
Fabric where tufts of yarn are inserted with special needles into an already constructed ground fabric. The base fabric can be woven, knitted or nonwoven. Also considered as tufted chenille.

Warp
The longitudinal yarns in a woven fabric parallel to the selvedges.

Weft
The yarn that is used in the weft of a woven fabric.

Yarn-dyed
Describes fabric where the yarns have been dyed before fabric manufacture.