Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy.
The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy.
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In 1893 a dress made of Bedford cord figured into the trial of Lizzie Borden.
Various testimonies about "the Bedford Cord" gave conflicting ideas as to whether the dress, which was burned by Borden after the murders of her father and stepmother, was stained by blood or by paint.