Velvet

a rich kind of stuff, all silk, covered on the outside with a close, short, fine, soft shag, the other side being a very strong close ti ue. The nap or shag, called also the velveting, of this stuff, is formed of parts of the threads of the warp,which the work man puts on _a long narrow-channelled ruler or needle, which he afterwards cuts, by drawing a sharp steel tool along the channel of the needle to the ends of the warp. The principal and best manufactories of velvet are in France and Italy, particularly in Venice, Milan, Florence, Genoa, ‘and Lucea: there are others in Holland, set up by the French refugees; whereof that at Haerlem is the most considerable: but they ail come short of the beauty of those in France, and accordingly are-sold for ten or fifteen per cent. le . There are even some brought from China; but they are the worst of all, Ve/tvet. a. 1. Made of velvet (Shaks.). 2. Soft; delicate (Young). To Ve/LvzET.v.n. To paint velvet.