Help!! Fabric sourcing

[Fabifabi]

Hi! My friend scored a great piece of vintage. The material tag is missing and I really want to know what fabric this is. Looks like velvet but thicker and less shiny. Any ideas??
Thaaaaanks!!!:-*

 

[The Vintage Vendeuse]

Possibly a polyester velveteen?
But let's wait and see what more learned heads than mine say!

 

[denisebrain]

I believe it may be cotton or cotton/poly velvet. https://vintagefashionguild.org/resources/item/fabric/velvet/ Notice that this is not the same as velvet.

 

[MagsRags]

I was wondering about woven velour?

 

[Rue_de_la_Paix]

Looks like velour to me.

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Looks like cotton velvet or velveteen to me.

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

velour was my first thought, too...

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

My first reaction was also a velour.

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

We had a similar discussion on Facebook yesterday so I thought I'd clarify that 'velour' is the French word for 'velvet' and the two fabrics are quite similar - the VFG fabric resource (thanks Maggie) says:

'Velour is made in the same way as velvet except that it is made of cotton or a blend....it differs from cotton velvet in having a longer and denser pile'.

Nicole