Camlet, also commonly known as camlot, camblet, or chamlet, is a woven fabric that might have originally been made of camel or goat's hair, later chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
This difficulty was so notorious, that a proverb existed, stating that someone "is like a camlet—he has taken his pleat.
While certain authors reference camlets as originally being made of camel hair, others believe it is from the Arabic seil el kemel, the Angora goat.
[2] According to Chambers's Encyclopaedia, it comes from Arabic chamal, meaning fine.
[7] French scholar Gilles Ménage determined that "camlet" was derived from zambelot, a Levantine term for stuffs made with the fine hair of a Turkish goat, probably the Angora goat, from which comes the term Turkish camelot.