Madapollam

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Madapollam {{IPAc-en|ˌ|m|æ|d|ə|ˈ|p|ɒ|l|ə|m}} is a soft cotton fabric manufactured from fine yarns with a dense pick laid out in linen weave. Madapollam is used as an embroidery and handkerchief fabric and as a base for fabric printing.[http://en.texsite.info/Madapolam_(1) Madapollam], Texsite.infoW. English, The Textile Industry (1969), 89-97; W. H. Chaloner, People and Industries (1993), 45-54 The equal warp and weft mean that the tensile strength and shrinkage is the same in any two directions at right angles and that the fabric absorbs liquids such as ink, paint and aircraft dope equally along its X and Y axes.

It was used as the covering for the de Havilland MosquitoKennedy Hickman, [http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiaircraft/p/mosquito.htm World War II: De Havilland Mosquito] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220072132/http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiaircraft/p/mosquito.htm |date=2016-12-20 }}, About.com

a pioneer of wooden monocoque airframe construction in military aircraft, as well as in other aircraft, where it was tautened and stiffened with aircraft dope.John Brandon, [http://www.auf.asn.au/scratchbuilder/fabrics.html "Aircraft fabric covering systems"], Builders guide to aircraft materials, 25 June 2006, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926195223/http://www.auf.asn.au/scratchbuilder/fabrics.html archived] at the Wayback Machine, 16 September 2008{{Failed verification|date=January 2015}}

The cloth takes its name from the eponymous village near Narsapur, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India, where the East India Company had a cloth factory.

{{Cite book

| last= Bowrey

| first= Thomas

| author-link= Thomas Bowrey

| editor-last= Temple

| editor-first= Richard Carnac

| editor-link= Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet

| title= A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679

| year= 1895

| page= 101

| publisher= Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society

| url= https://archive.org/details/ageographicalac00bowrgoog