FOULARD. A light silk fabric, having a distinctive soft fin ish and of the plain or simple twill weave. It is said to come originally from the Far East. In French, the word "foulard" signifies a silk handkerchief. The fabric is figured with a pattern printed in various colours, and used for dress material, handker chiefs, scarves and neckties. Fine cotton textures of good quality and produced from yarn spun from superior gradts of cotton (as Egyptian and Sea Islands), are also sold as "foulard." Cotton foulard, which is usually of the plain calico or simple twill weave, is mercerized, and printed with patterns in styles and colourings similar to those of silk foulard, and employed for similar purposes.