Bombazine

 ( Woven Fabrics ) 

Bombazine, or bombasine, is a cloth originally made of silk or silk and wool, and more recently also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine has a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is or Corduroy and used for dress-material: commonly in dresses, skirts, and jackets. It was a heavy and dense fabric, with a fine diagonal rib that ran through the weave of the fabric. Black bombazine was used largely for mourning wear in 16th-century and 17th-century Europe,

but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century.

Etymologists derive the English term "bombazine" from an Anatolian word in Ancient Greek: βόμβυξ ("silkworm"), via Latin bombyx ("silkworm") and the obsolete French language term bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton.

Bombazine is said to have been made in England in the time of Elizabeth I (), and early in the 19th century it was largely made at Norwich.

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