linsey

It has a 21 jean weave where the wool fibers show more on the outside and the cotton shows more on the inside where a plain weave is often described as linsey-woolsey.

Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

“From her elegant silk lingerie into horrible itchy blue coarse stuff called linsey-woolsey.”

Archive 2004-07-01 Mae West NYC 2004

“From her elegant silk lingerie into horrible itchy blue coarse stuff called linsey-woolsey.”

Jerry Tallmer talks about Mae West Mae West NYC 2004

In the wintertime the dresses were made of checked woolen material called linsey cloth.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

We wore clothes called linsey that was wool and cotton mixed.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, 15 and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made.

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made; the wool was shorn from the sheep, which were so scarce that they were never killed for their flesh, except by the wolves, which were very fond of mutton, but had no use for wool.

Stories Of Ohio William Dean Howells 1878

The women wore gowns of very coarse homespun and home-woven cloth, composed of linen and wool, and called linsey-woolsey, very coarse shoes, and sometimes with buckskin gloves of their own manufacture.

David Crockett 1841

A fabric called linsey-woolsey was most frequently in use and made the most substantial and warmest clothing.

Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky 1841

With all this she was also very kind to a married sister, who had a large family; but she wore no flowers, flounces, nor finery; her six gowns were of a stuff the Scotch call linsey-woolsey; and so in sixteen years 'services she had amassed what

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 Various 1836