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Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category]

Acrylic:
The softest acrylic sunny day - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"

Buckskin:
Wrapped in buckskin and silver - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Cambric:
The slanting, cambric curtain of his soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Canvas.

Cashmere:
Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Chiffon:
Chiffon, gauze, and tinsel - Conrad Aiken "Dancing Adairs"

Chintz:
Chintz that blinks with dragon's eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Cloth of Gold:
Spices, fine linen, and cloth of gold - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Cotton.

Crepe:
Clouds with crepe bedeck and shroud the skies - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

Damask:
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The purple damask of their scales - Li Po "In Reply When Lesser Officials of Chung-tu Brought a Pot of Wine and Two Fish to My Inn as Gifts" transl. by Burton Watson

Glow voluptuous of the damask rose - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Denim:
Stooped over sewing machines in denim dust - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Fabric.

Felt:
Vulgar black felt stapled in the raised flowerbeds - Ari Banias "Fountain"

The thick felt of the mist's white hood - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell

The felt mat seats us shoulder to shoulder - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Flannel:
Flannel and furs to keep yourself warm - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"

With scarlet flannel round - Zona Gale "Violin"

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Silk zigzagged to flannel - Richard Solomon "Possession I: Blanky"

Flax.

Fleece.

Gauze.

Gossamer.

Hemp:
Wild paths through mulberry and hemp - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson

Sun warm on mulberry and hemp - Su Tung-p'o "[Soft grasses, a plain of sedge]" transl. by Burton Watson

The flaxen hemp still plaits its chain - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Lace.

Lawn:
Break through your veils of lawn - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

Leather.

Linen.

Mesh.

Muslin:
Scares muslin souls away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXIV"

Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"

Rag.

Ribbon.

Ruffle.

Sack/Sackcloth.

Samite:
The swan of samite blood - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Sarcenet:
Her lips unlocked your sarcenet line - Noel QuiƱones "Orange"

Satin.

Silk.

Strap:
A mesh of leather straps and danger - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Suede:
When the clouds have turned to suede - Diane DeCillis "Ingratiating the Monster"

Taffeta:
A taffeta of cold air - dg nanouk okpik "Inupiaq Women"

Textile:
With analogue, textile eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Velvet.

Velour:
In pink velours and pea green checks - Oliver Herford "John S. Sargent"

Velveteen:
Sang copper into velveteen shells - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Wool.


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