Fustian

“A species of cotton cloth much used by the Normans, particularly by the clergy, and appropriated to their chasubles.” ( Strutt. ) It was originally woven at Fustat, on the Nile, with a warp of linen thread, and a woof of thick cotton, so twilled and cut that it showed on one side a thick but low pile. In the 14th century Chaucer says of his knight,— “Of fustian he wered a gepon.” In the 15th century Naples was celebrated for fustian. An old English account of this date has “Fuschan in Appules” (for Fustian from Naples).