Frieze (textile)

In the history of textiles, frieze (French: frisé) is a Middle English term for a coarse woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side.

[2] Frieze was woven in the English Midlands and Wales, and in Ireland from the fourteenth century, and later in Holland as well.

[3] In the seventeenth century Frize was applied to linen cloth, apparently as from Frisia, an unconnected usage.

"Frieze cloth, a mixed and for the most part an unraised fabric, has been manufactured for a series of years, and continues so to be, probably, in increasing quantity", wrote Samuel Jubb in 1860.

[6] Irish frieze found its way to North America: a stock of hooded coats that was brought to Detroit in 1701 included twenty-three made of frise d'Irlande.