Bombazine

Quality bombazine has a silk warp and a worsted weft.

It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material, and was commonly used for dresses, skirts, and jackets.

It was a heavy and dense fabric, with a fine diagonal rib that ran through the weave of the fabric.

[2] The word "bombazine" is derived by etymologists from an Anatolian word in Greek: βόμβυξ ("silkworm"), via Latin bombyx ("silkworm") and the obsolete French term bombasin, applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton.

Bombazine is said to have been made in England in Elizabeth I's reign (r. 1558–1603), and early in the 19th century it was largely made at Norwich.