hopsack

He was wearing a dark gray hopsack suit, obviously expensive, and a contrasting emerald-colored waistcoat.

Barathea is an indistinct twill or broken rib - usually a twilled hopsack weave - with a fine textured, slightly pebbled surface.

He motioned at a used-up La-Z-Boy upholstered in mustard hopsack and punctuated with exposed tufts of almost matching foam rubber.

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Barathea, sometimes spelled barrathea, is a soft fabric, with a hopsack twill weave giving a surface that is lightly pebbled or ribbed.

A more extensive area is surfaced with Ruabon Welsh Clay Pavers in Hopsack pattern with traditional borders.

Track 10 produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson for Hopsack & Silk Productions, Inc.

The fabric, once thought to wrinkle so badly that its wearers were branded "suckers," actually retains its press fairly well compared with such popular summer alternatives as linen or hopsack.

Or, if you are more of the straw-hat-and-flowery-jacket persuasion, you can't get prettier than Odd's printed hopsack gardening waistcoat (£93) and reversible canvas hats (£47).

The Andrew Fezza Sportswear Collection offers a sophisticated version of the windbreaker: a versatile washed-indigo blouson in hopsack linen with buttons carved from black nutshells.

Their latest CD, "Been Found" (Hopsack and Silk), is a collaboration with the poet Maya Angelou, and Ms. Angelou was on hand for the concert, which was part of the JVC Jazz Festival.

In 1995, I was responsible for introducing the duo's manager Logan to John Abbey at Ichiban Records and the result was the release of their Been Found collaboration with the great poet Maya Angelou via Ichiban on their own Hopsack & Silk imprint.

It is apparently about all kinds of unlikely pairings, dresses of puckered silk satin worn with short jackets of rough hopsack; hats reminiscent of the dotty Bostonian matrons in Helen Hokinson cartoons and clunky platform sandals suggestive of another sort of woman, one who works on the stroll.