ITALIAN CLOTH. "Italians" and "Italian linings" are two optional trade terms denoting an important class of fabric com prising various qualities and employed in the dress goods trade chiefly for coat and dress linings, aprons and ladies' overalls. These fabrics are characterized by a smooth and glossy surface resulting chiefly from their construction on the simple five-end weft satin weave structure (with the weft only displayed on the surface) as well as from the finishing and calendering which imparts to the fabric a very lustrous and glossy surface.
A typical example of the true Italian cloth of good quality is produced from a warp with 1 oo threads per inch of 2/66's fast black cotton, and 16o picks per inch of botany worsted weft, piece-dyed black and highly calendered ; while a good quality of all-cotton Italian lining contains 72 ends per inch of 36's cotton yarn, and picks per inch of 40's super quality weft.