Barragan (cloth)

{{Short description|Spanish term for fabric}}

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{{lang|es|Barragan}} ({{lang|es|barragon}}){{Cite book|last1=Cannon|first1=Garland Hampton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiNWi1g3fJ4C&dq=Barragan+(cloth)&pg=PA150|title=The Arabic Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary|last2=Kaye|first2=Alan S.|date=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03491-3|pages=150|language=en}} was a Spanish term for various types of fabrics or fabric products in the Middle Ages.{{Cite book|last=Solalinde|first=Jesusa Alfau de|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aI7AAAAMAAJ&q=Barragan|title=Names of Textiles in Thirteenth Century Spanish|date=1939|publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison|pages=13|language=en}} {{lang|es|Barragan}} was derived from the Arabic term {{transl|ar|barrakan}}, that signified heavy cotton and woolen materials.{{Cite book|last=Mazzaoui|first=Maureen Fennell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99s8AAAAIAAJ&dq=barragan+cloth+middle+ages&pg=PA199|title=The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600|date=1981-07-09|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=199|isbn=9780521230957 |language=en}} Initially meaning a heavy cloth, by the 15th century it had come to mean a luxurious cloth made of silk. Along with terms such as {{lang|es|almuzalla}}, {{lang|es|fazale}}, and {{lang|es|mobatana}}, {{lang|es|barragan}} was also used to mean a type of table- or altar-cloth.{{Cite book|last=Glick|first=Thomas F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWqmebvcjj0C&dq=barragan+cloth+middle+ages&pg=PA140|title=Islamic And Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages|date=2005|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-14771-3|pages=140|language=en}} In the 17th century, the term was revived to mean a twill weave woolen material similar to moleskin.