Chinchilla (cloth)

{{Short description|Napped material made from fine wool}}

{{About|a napped fabric|3=Chinchilla (disambiguation)}}

Chinchilla was a napped material made from fine wool. The surface has tufts very close together.{{Cite book|last=Commerce|first=United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPcsAAAAYAAJ&q=Chinchilla+woolen+cloth&pg=PA298|title=The Men's Factory-made Clothing Industry: Report on the Cost of Production of Men's Factory-made Clothing in the United States|date=1916|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=298|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Union|first=Pan American|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qNNXAAAAYAAJ&q=Chinchilla+woolen+cloth|title=Bulletin|date=1948|pages=403|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Tortora|first1=Phyllis G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&q=Chinchilla+woolen+cloth&pg=PA119|title=The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles|last2=Johnson|first2=Ingrid|date=2013-09-17|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-60901-535-0|pages=119|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Curtis|first=Homer S. comp [from old catalog|url=http://archive.org/details/dressmakersdicti00curt|title=Dressmakers dictionary ..|date=1916|publisher=[Brooklyn, N.Y., The Guide printing company]|others=The Library of Congress}}