Does anyone know this fabric?

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velvetpinvintage

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I keep looking in fabric guide but can't really come up with ideas. I thought maybe barkclth but this looks more like flour sac. :) its from a jacket that I would guess from 1950s 1960s.. Any tips? Thank you in advance
 

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Hi, we need to see close up, in focus pictures to help identify the fabric please. The current picture is just too far away to see anything.
 
Agree with Melanie: a close up is needed.

It won't be buckram, looks like a fine wool from here, perhaps a soft boucle but that's at odds with your description that it's like a flour sack.

From your description it sounds like cotton or rayon but that's not how it looks from afar.
 
Oh, just saw that the close up didnt load. Ill try to add it now. It is rather stiff loose fabric.

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Circa Vintage said:
Agree with Melanie: a close up is needed.

It won't be buckram, looks like a fine wool from here, perhaps a soft boucle but that's at odds with your description that it's like a flour sack.

From your description it sounds like cotton or rayon but that's not how it looks from afar.
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Def not bucle. Just tried posting a close up again. Hope it works now
 
Is it rough or soft? I find linen to have a 'hard' feel to it, but the slubs in that fabric are more pronounced than I have ever seen in linen so I wonder if it is a novelty yard with some wool content.
 
Thank you guys for looking. I checked that slub section of fabric descriptikn and one that would be the most like this is crash. But it seems crash has finer yarn. Or maybe not? Im lost really. This jacket feels very wearable but rough at the same time. Steaming after washi g made it a bit softer otherwise it was very stiff and hard. The fabric is woven very loosely from thick, round yarn. It does have a french label...
This feels almost like detective work. Ill keep trying google
Have a great day everyone.
 
This could also be silk: I've seen a few silks from the late '50s-early '60s that look like this, in fact I have one in my shop (not online or I'd show you a pic).

The solution, I think is to do a burn test because once you know the fabric content, determining the weave will be much easier.
 
The stiffness of the fabric, even after washing, seems to imply that it is linen or perhaps a blend of linen and another fiber. If a synthetic fiber is in the mix it could also account for the stiff feel. I stick with my assessment of hopsack, it has that homespun look to the loose weave. The name of the weave is the same regardless of the fiber content.
 
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