Cheviot
Also known as: Cheviot cloth
Robust, slightly napped woollen fabric from Cheviot sheep wool with a grainy heathered look — a tweed relative for jackets and coats.
Description
Cheviot is a robust, slightly napped woollen fabric originally made from the wool of Scottish-English Cheviot mountain sheep. The wool fibre is medium-fine, long-staple and slightly crimped — producing a warm, grainy, often heathered cloth with a rough but not scratchy hand. The weave is usually twill or herringbone, occasionally plain.
Classically pure Cheviot wool (worsted or woollen), today also blended with other wools and man-made fibres. Weights 280-450 g/m². The look recalls Harris Tweed but is softer and less rustic; cheviot counts as a tweed relative with a stronger business character.
Uses: jackets, coats, suits, skirts, kilts, hunting clothes and rugged sports jackets. In British menswear cheviot is a classic for country suits and land-wear jackets that combines dress-appropriate wear with ruggedness.
Properties
| Weave type | Twill or herringbone |
|---|---|
| Typical fibres | Cheviot wool, wool blends |
| Fabric weight | 280-450 g/m² |
| Use | Jackets, coats, suits, kilts |
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Sources & references
2- Wikipedia: Cheviot (cloth) Wikipedia — Freie Enzyklopädie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheviot_(cloth)
- Textile Institute textileinstitute.org https://www.textileinstitute.org/
