_Farandine._ A cloth of silk and wool or hair, invented about 1630 by one Ferrand. Pepys mentions her new ferrandine waistcoat (1663). I must wear black farandine the whole year (1668). Peach colored farandine (1685).
_Frieze._ A coarse woolen cloth, with a nap, usually on one side only. A gown of green frieze (1418). A home-spun frieze cloth (1611). His waistcoat of red frieze (1627). An old calash lined with green frieze (1765).
_Fugere._ Red satin fuger (1465). Cover of a field bed of fuger satin yellow and red (1596). A petticoat of fuger satin laid with silver and gold lace and spangled (1638).
_Fustian._ A coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. His clothing was black fustian with bends in the sleeves (1450). White fustian for socks for the Queen (1502). Blankets of fustian (1558). Then shall the yeoman take fustian and cast it upon the bed and the sheet likewise ... then lay on the other sheet ... then lay on the over fustian above (1494).
_Galloway._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1681).
_Garlits_, _Garliz_, _Garlix_. Linens made in Gorlitz, Prussian Silesia. There are several kinds in shades of blue-white and brown.
_Ghenting._ A kind of linen, originally made in Ghent, Flanders. Used for handkerchiefs, etc.
_Grisette_, _Grizet_. An inferior dress fabric, formerly the common garb of working girls in France. His doublet was a griset-coat (1700).
_Grogam_, _Grosgrane_. A coarse fabric of silk, of mohair and wool, or these mixed with silk; often stiffened with gum. Used for aprons, cloaks, coats, doublets, gowns and petticoats. My watered grogram gown (1649). Grograms from Lille (1672).
_Haircloth._ Cloth made of hair and used for tents, towels, and in drying malt, hops, etc. Every piece of haircloth (1500). Coal sacks made of hair-cloth (1764).
_Hamald_, _Hamel_, _Hammells_. Homemade fabrics. Narrow hammells. Boston Gazette, June 30, 1735.
_Harrateen._ A linen fabric used for curtains, bed hangings, etc. Field bedsteads with crimson harrateen furniture (1711). Harrateen, Cheney, flowered cotton and checks (1748). For curtains, the best are linen check harrateen (1825).
_Holland._ A linen fabric, originally made in Holland. When unbleached called brown holland. A shift of fine holland (1450). Women cover their head with a coyfe of fine holland linen cloth (1617). Fine holland handkerchiefs (1660).