Batiste

Batiste is a fine cloth made from cotton, wool, polyester, or a blend, and the softest
of the lightweight opaque fabrics.

Contents
History and description
Type
See also
References
External links
Detail of a linen batiste handkerchief,
19th century

History and description

Batiste is a balanced plain weave, a fine cloth made from cotton or linen such as
cambric. Batiste was often used as a lining fabric for high-quality garments. Batiste
is also used for handkerchiefs (cotton batiste) and lingerie (batiste de soie).

In 1901 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language defined

batiste as "usual French name for cambric" or "applied in commerce to a fine texture
of linen and cotton".[1]

"Cambric" is a synonym of the French word batiste,[2] itself attested since 1590.[3]
Batiste itself comes from the Picard batiche, attested since 1401, derived from the
old French battre for bowing wool. The modern form batiste or baptiste comes from
a popular merge with the surname Baptiste, pronounced Batisse, as indicated by the
use of the expressionsthoile batiche (1499) and toile de baptiste (1536) for the same
fabric.[3] The alleged[4] invention of the fabric, around 1300, by a weaver called
Baptiste or Jean-Baptiste Cambray or Chambray, from the village of Castaing in the
peerage of Marcoing, near Cambrai, has no historic ground.[3][5][6][7]

Type
Lightweight opaque fabrics are very thin and light but not as transparent as sheer
fabrics. The distinction between the two is not always pronounced. End uses include
apparel and furnishings. Organdy (a sheer fabric), lawn, and batiste begin as the
same greige goods. They differ from one another in the way they are finished. Lawn Shirt-waist from Charvet in fine
and batiste do not receive the acid finish and, thus, remain opaque. Better quality batiste (1898)
fabrics are made of combed yarns.

See also
Cambric
References
1. Davidson, Thomas, comp.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary ofthe English Language. London: W. & R.
Chambers; p. 79
2. Oxford English Dictionary
3. Le Robert: Dictionnaire historique de la langue française(in French). 1. Dictionnaires Le Robert. 2000. p. 352.
ISBN 2-85036-532-7.
4. Archives historiques et littéraires du nord de la France, et du midi de la Belgique
(https://books.google.com/books?id
=7c0GAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA341) (in French). Au Bureau des Archives. 1829. pp. 341– . Retrieved 9 October 2011.
5. France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Section d'histoire et de philologie (1898).
Bulletin historique
et philologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques(https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2Q9AAAA Y
AAJ) (in French). Impr. nationale. Retrieved 9 October 2011. "Pas plus une réalité historique que l'étymologique
brasseur Cambrinus."
6. Société d'émulation de Cambrai (1859).Séance publique [afterw.] Mémoires (https://books.google.com/books?id=3
MsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA69) (in French). pp. 1–. Retrieved 9 October 2011. "On ignore complètement le siècle
où a vécu Jean-Baptiste Cambrai."
7. Max Pfister (1980). Einführung in die romanische Etymologie(https://books.google.com/books?id=0wsaAAAAMAAJ)
(in German). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, [Abt. eVrl.] ISBN 978-3-534-07834-9. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
"Obschon Cambrai fûr die mittelalterliche Leinenindustrie bekannt ist und Baptiste sogar mit einem Denkmal geehrt
wurde, dürfte dieser Fabrikant historisch nicht nachweisbar sein, dabatiste etymologisch auf battre zurück geht."

External links
Media related to Batiste at Wikimedia Commons

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