Huckaback fabric

Huckaback fabric or Huck is a type of toweling cloth with a bird's eye or honeycomb pattern. It is a loosely woven fabric made of cotton or linen with Huckaback weave.[1][2][3][4]

Structure

The fabric has small geometric patterns and extra texture. It has a plain, rough pebbled surface.[5]

Huckaback

Blended Huck towels are made by keeping warp in cotton and weft in linen. Huckaback[6] is a weave in which the weft yarns are of a relatively lower count, and they are loosely twisted (softly spun), making a floating and absorbing weave.[2] It is woven on a dobby loom that has a mechanism for weaving geometric patterns. The Huck cloth has good absorbency hence suitable for towels.[1][7][8]

Swedish weave

Huck weave is also called Swedish weave that was famous in 1940.[9]

Use

Terry, the piled fabrics, and Huck are preferred cloths for towels.[5][7][10][11]

See also

References
  1. Wingate, Isabel Barnum (1979). Fairchild's dictionary of textiles. Internet Archive. New York : Fairchild Publications. p. 299. ISBN 978-0-87005-198-2.
  2. "Definition of HUCKABACK". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Huckaback" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 848.
  4. Barve, V. R. (1967). Complete Textile Encyclopaedia. D. B. Taraporevala Sons. p. 177.
  5. Marketing Research Report. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1952. p. 19.
  6. Skeat, Etym. Dict. (1898), says, “The word bears so remarkable resemblance to Low Ger. hukkebak, Ger. huckeback, pick-a-back, that it seems reasonable to suppose that it at first meant ‘peddler’s ware.’ ” The New English Dictionary does not consider that the connexion can at present be assumed.
  7. Revenue, United States Bureau of Internal (1934). Internal Revenue Bulletin: Cumulative bulletin. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 478.
  8. The English Cyclopedia. 1867. p. 295.
  9. Tams, Jeanne; Duffin, Nan (1998). Avery Hill's 33 contemporary Swedish weaving patterns for monk's cloth. Internet Archive. Layton, Utah : Avery Hill. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-929582-00-6.
  10. Farstad, Edmund Harry; Brensike, Valentine John (1952). Costs of Retailing Meats in Relation to Volume. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. p. 19.
  11. Good Housekeeping. C.W. Bryan. 1888. p. 189.
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