Initially, it was a coarse cloth produced by the inmates of Parramatta Female Factory, and used for convicts’ clothing.
After 1815 the cloth was finished in a separate factory, producing a tweed of superior quality which was imitated by English producers.
[6][7][8] In 1815 Simeon Lord established a factory at Botany Bay where cloth from Parramatta was finished and dyed, producing a high quality, and expensive, tweed.
[4][3] This cloth gained enough of a reputation to be imitated by English manufacturers in Bradford, who later marketed their own products as Parramatta Cloth.
[4] PIECE GOODS MANUAL refers Paramatta as a lightweight fabric woven with a specific twill pattern using cotton and Botany worsted yarns.