_Sempiternum._ A woolen cloth made in the seventeenth century and similar to perpetuana. See _Everlasting_. _Shag._ A cloth having a velvet nap on one side, usually of worsted, but sometimes of silk. Crimson shag for winter clothes (1623). A cushion of red shag (1725). _Shalloon._ A closely woven woolen material used for linings. Instead of shalloon for lining men's coats, sometimes use a glazed calico (1678). _Sleazy._ An abbreviated form of silesia. A linen that took its name from Silesia in Hamborough, and not because it wore sleasy (1696). A piece of Slesey (1706). _Soosey._ A mixed, striped fabric of silk and cotton made in India. Pelongs, ginghams and sooseys (1725). _Stammel._ A coarse woolen cloth, or linsey-woolsey, usually dyed red. In summer, a scarlet petticoat made of stammel or linsey-woolsey (1542). His table with stammel, or some other carpet was neatly covered (1665). The shade of red with which this cloth was usually dyed was called stammel color. _Swanskin_, _Swanikins_. A fine, thick flannel, so called on account of its extraordinary whiteness. The swan-skin coverlet and cambrick sheets (1610). _Tabby._ Named for a quarter of Bagdad where the stuff was woven. A general term for a silk taffeta, applied originally to the striped patterns, but afterwards applied also to silks of uniform color waved or watered. The bride and bridegroom were both clothed in white tabby (1654). A child's mantle of a sky-colored tabby (1696). A pale blue watered tabby (1760). Rich Morrello Tabbies. (Boston Gazette, March 25, 1734). _Tabling._ Material for table cloths; table linen, Diaper for tabling (1640). 12 yards tabling at 2/6 per yard. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1678). _Tamarine._ A kind of woolen cloth. A piece of ash-colored wooley Tamarine striped with black (1691). _Tammy._ A fine worsted cloth of good quality, often with a glazed finish. All other kersies, bayes, tammies, sayes, rashes, etc. (1665). A sort of worsted-stuff which lies cockled (1730). Her dress a light drab lined with blue tammy (1758). A red tammy petticoat (1678). Strain it off through a tammy (1769). _Tandem._ A kind of linen, classed among Silesia linens. Yard wide tandems for sale (1755). Quadruple tandems (1783). _Thick Sets._ A stout, twilled cotton cloth with a short very close nap: a kind of fustian. A Manchester thickset on his back (1756). _Ticklenburg._ Named for a town in Westphalia. A kind of coarse linen, generally very uneven, almost twice as strong as osnaburgs, much sold in England. About 1800 the name was always stamped on the cloth. _Tiffany._ A kind of thin transparent silk; also a transparent gauze muslin, cobweb lawn. Shewed their naked arms through false sleeves of tiffany (1645). Black tiffany for mourning (1685). _Tow Cloth._ A coarse cloth made from tow, i.e., the short fibres of flax combed out by the hetchell, and made into bags or very coarse clothing. Ropes also were made of tow.