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Name the painter and the painting.

The painting takes its name from a light, cotton fabric exported from India.

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And the answer is ….


The Red Madras Headress or Madras Rouge by Henri Matisse


This book is bound in a fabric that is made of wool that had not been dyed. It later came to denote a colour. Interestingly, this word X and another word Y, meaning ‘unbleached’, were both used for the same shade of colour till the 1930s. X and Y?

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Beige & Ecru


This English term for a coarse fabric made either out of jute or hemp comes from the Sanskrit for ‘sack’. What word?

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Gunny from goni


Which fabric was a rough cloth traditionally made from camel's-hair, goat-hair or hemp? It is now a term signifying penitence, from a Judaic practice relayed to the English language via The Bible.

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Sack-cloth (and ashes)


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Calico (cat & crab)


What are such patterns, common in the natural world, called?

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Moire


Identify him, what is the style of shirts that he popularized called and what fabric is used to make these traditional shirts?

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Ramon Magsaysay, Barong shirts, made of piña – fibre made from pineapple leaves


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Muslin, whose name is derived from either Machilipatanam or Mosul


Valenki is traditional Russian winter footwear. Valenki means 'made using ____', referring to the fabric used to manufacture these shoes. What?

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Felt


Connect this album cover to the German word for cotton.

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Medieval Europeans believed that cotton came from a strange plant of India where lambs grew on plants – a concept known as 'Vegetable Lamb of Tartary'. The German word for cotton – baumwolle meaning 'tree wool' stems from this belief.

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