Harateen
{{Short description|A woolen cloth of 18th and early 19th-century}}
{{For|the North African people|Haratin}}
Harateen or harrateen{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5tiAAAAMAAJ&q=harateen+fabric&pg=PA130|title=The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language, with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, & Use|date=1884|publisher=Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company|pages=130|language=en}} was a woolen material of the 18th and early 19th-century produced in England. It was a furnishing material with a pattern used in upholstery.
Fabrication
Harateen was a plain weave fabric manufactured with coarser weft than the warp yarns. Then undergoes a procedure of watering and stamping. The two layers of cloth were pressed together with a hot press. Imprinted, thicker horizontal strands produce a distinct wavy pattern.{{Cite book|last=Montgomery|first=Florence M.|url=http://archive.org/details/textilesinameric00mont|title=Textiles in America 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth|date=1984|publisher=New York; London : Norton|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-393-01703-8|pages=256}}{{Cite book|last1=Tortora|first1=Phyllis G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&q=harateen+fabric&pg=PA281|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=281|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Denton|first1=Michael James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAtIAQAAIAAJ&q=harateen+fabric|title=Textile Terms and Definitions|last2=Daniels|first2=Paul N.|date=2002|publisher=Textile Institute|isbn=978-1-870372-44-2|pages=164|language=en}}
Use
This fabric was used for curtains and bed hangings.{{Cite web|title=Definition of HARRATEEN|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harrateen|access-date=2021-05-30|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Conradsen|first=David H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MADrAAAAMAAJ&q=harateen+fabric|title=Useful Beauty: Early American Decorative Arts from St. Louis Collections|date=1999|publisher=Saint Louis Art Museum|isbn=978-0-89178-080-9|pages=47|language=en}}