Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-03 | Page 4 | Cambrai, the City of Cambric

ICAMBRAI. THE CITY OF CAMBRIC. During this grat drive of the Germans, Ger-mans, Cambrai has been mentioned more than any other place on the western west-ern front. The Standard is indebted to the Haberdasher for this brief his- j torical reference to that famous industrial in-dustrial center: "Cammric is often called French cambric when it has been produced elsewhere, and It may be added that many fabrics are from time to time marketed under the name without .strictly earning it. Properly speaking, cambric is the fine thin linen first manufactured in Cambrai about the sixteenth century. It was first used for the fine ruffs sen in portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Bacon. The French are in the habit of calling it batiste, ba-tiste, from the name of its Inventor, a linen weaver of Cambrai. A good deal of fine cotton cloth is sold as cambric, cam-bric, and confusion Is thereby caused The shirts generally known as French print are cotton, not linen, and so com-pletflly com-pletflly has the use of the word cambric cam-bric for cotton equally with linen fabrics fab-rics been established that It can hard ly be called fraudulent." oo