5 Fabric Names Explained

[@NameExplain]

Suggest a subject area to be covered next time!

[@h.j.mullinerandco.4702]

Household item names might be good

[@doomi4055]

Patrick do 5 car companies explain for patreon poll. (examples: Chevrolet, Ford Honda Nissan and Mercedes.)

[@sams3015]

Clothing Brands not named for people maybe?

[@zeroworldcraft]

Boat words. Do boat words... Starboard, etc.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

@@doomi4055 four of those are named after the Founder in some form or Fashion I.E. Henry Ford Soichiro Honda Arthur & Louis Chevrolet & Gotlieb Daimler & Karl Benz Nissan was a subsidiary of Datsun. @Patrick may you could do five classic cars named after Animals/birds some examples being [Buick Skylark Chevrolet Impala Ford Pinto Mercury Bob Cat/Lynx Ford Bronco etc.

[@rogerwitte]

We still call the oil made from flax seeds Linseed oil. Also, I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Denim was originally created in Nimes in France.

[@SciFiFemale]

The silkworm is the larva (or caterpillar) of a silk moth, (Bombyx mori). So not a worm at all.

[@billyr2904]

Silkworms... are not worms, but the larval form of the silk moth. So it should be called the silk caterpillar, which sounds cuter.

[@lesterstone8595]

The fabric COTTON comes to English from Old French "coton" which took it from the Arabic word qutn. However, the surNAME, Cotton has nothing to do with the fabric but is an Anglo-Saxon derivative of the Old English "cotum" which means "cottages." Famous people with the surname Cotton include U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and British actor, Antony Cotton. Finally, you mention velvet and velvety, but there is also a fabric called velveteen, which is a cotton fabric with pile resembling velvet.

[@snardfluk]

You could do a Part Two about tweed, flannel, felt, velour, etc.

[@DaveSCameron]

Haha! Yes definitely that'd be brilliant 😂

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Denim

[@DaveSCameron]

@@elizabethdavis1696 The awful British after shave or the fabric 😊😊

[@herschelwright4663]

Cotton, mesh and nylon.

[@h.m.v.]

Chiffon

[@sams3015]

I’ve just rediscover you lately…loving your content👏

[@AL_O0]

My teacher told us a story about why nylon was named that, it turned out to be completely wrong but it was very weird and interesting, they said that during WW2 Japan was selling silk to the US to make parachutes, but since they were an enemy the US created a synthetic fiber and called it Nylon as an acronym for "Now You Lose, Old Nippon" Turn out dupont just randomly chose "nyl" and and added the -on suffix, which is boring but at least it's not racist propaganda

[@gaviswayze9696]

You could try doing a series on words derived from specific languages (highlighting ones that *don't* cover a huge amount of English already, like Old English, French, or Latin) For instance, you could look at words that derive from Nahuatl, such as chocolate, avocado, ocelot and coyote. With that, you could also cover a bit of etymological history to show how it came to English (in the case of many Nahuatl words, that would most often be via Spanish)

[@paddywan]

In Sweden (and perhaps elsewhere too) courderoy is called "Manchester".

[@christopherbentley7289]

In Czech it's 'manšestr', so clearly Czech and Swedish think alike.

[@WUStLBear82]

You mentioned velvety but left out silky and flaxen. Flaxen is the odd one out as it describes color rather than texture.

[@ogdalovshka3457]

Most underrated KZbinr out there

[@christopherbentley7289]

That idea of velvet conveying an impression of softness is shown in the 'Sametová Revoluce' ('Velvet Revolution') in Czech. Valérie Čižmárová's partner at the Divadlo Rokoko (Rococo Theatre), Jitka Zelenková is known as 'Sametový Hlas' ('The Velvet Voice'), too. I'm not sure about anything particularly soft about the industrial city of Krefeld, but that was certainly marketed as 'Die Stadt wie Samt und Seide' ('The City like velvet and silk') when I was there in the Nineties doing the research work for my Final-Year University of Derby Project while there as a part-time mature undergraduate in Geography with German, which was an investigation into comparing the public transport system in and around Derby with those in and around three cities in Germany of a comparable population, the other two being Aachen and Hagen. I accidentally found out during that time that Krefeld was twinned with Leicester, which made me think that Krefeld had picked the wrong East Midlands city, as it was once said - probably to make Derbeians feel superior to their larger neighbours - that it was Leicester for wool, Nottingham for cotton, but Derby for silk, Derby being, I suppose, 'The Krefeld of the UK' as a centre of the silk industry. In the early years of the Millennium, while following the German telly with which I'd become very familiar during my university studies, I found out that there was a rag trade-based drama series in progress called 'Samt und Seide' ('Velvet And Silk'), which got me all excited as I expected that it was set/shot in Krefeld. However, it was another city in Germany with a similar population to Derby's, that I had pencilled in as a city to investigate - Augsburg. I had visited there, however, during a Touristkarte rail tour of West Germany on the eve of the aforementioned 'Sametová Revoluce', so I can still claim a personal connection. For quite a time after 'Samt und Seide' had been broadcast, as it had been something of a cult series, Augsburg had a mini-tourist boom for fans of the programme wanting to see where the stars had trodden, especially the star of the show, Christina Rainer who played Lena Czerni.

[@elinakangas571]

Why is velvet called sametti in Finnish? Cordoroy is simply called vakosametti. Vako = plowed/furrow. ❤

[@christopherbentley7289]

I like a bit of Finnish! We should call it 'ploughed velvet' in English.

[@paulinaruiz928]

Make this into a series please 🙏🏼

[@SuprousOxide]

Polyester is made from "many things", but specifically the Ester molecules are combined together in long chains forming very long molecules that stick together to form a solid, rather than the liquid the base esters exist in. Interesting that you identify Linen from flax as very natural, but doesn't that also apply to cotton and wool (or even silk)?

[@timmmahhhh]

Mind blown with corduroy having the wrong etymology all my life. BTW youve slowed down your speech, you sound muxh more relaxed and confident, great improvement well done.

[@HalfEye79]

An ester is any organic stuff with a COO-bridge like the one shown.

[@WUStLBear82]

Acid + Alcohol = Ester + Water

[@HalfEye79]

@@WUStLBear82 If it is an organic acid, then thats correct.

[@zeroworldcraft]

Boat words! Do boat words. Starboard etc.

[@sdspivey]

Polyester is a material that the fabric is made from, not the fabric.

[@rajinder2k4]

I don't know why i imagined you as a secondary school kid

[@samwill7259]

Beautiful building material. Fab Brick

[@josephdella-peruta375]

I'm surprised you didn't mention linoleum, which is made from linseed oil from flax.

[@gottaluvlinda]

So fascinating

[@New_Wave_Nancy]

How about 5 island nation names explained? There's plenty to choose from.

[@montecorbit8280]

Poly means many different things, polymer is a type of plastic.... That was one of your bloopers. You should have had denim on here!! One of the most ubiquitous fabrics in the US, and possibly many other places....

[@ericharkleroad7716]

5 Beer style names

[@summertime9629]

Polyester is a man made fabric… 😋 I mean.. aren’t all “Fabrics”” essentially… Made by man? What specific accent is this? My uncultured ears aren’t sure if it’s just a heavy accent or also a bit of a speech impediment, w/ a unique vocal fry at the end of his words. It’s unique! I likely sound like hopefully a less annoying Fran Drescher… so I’m really not hating. ♾☮