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Narrow cloth or narrow-loom cloth is cloth of a comparatively narrow width.
Ergonomics historically limited the practical width that can be woven by a single weaver on a handloom; the weaver had to reach both edges of the cloth to throw the shuttle through the shed. Wider widths had to be woven with a person on each side, throwing the shuttle back and forth between them, or, later, with a flying shuttle.
Narrow cloth was also a trading term for woolen cloths. Narrow cloths were distinguished in width from broadcloth. The narrow cloths were different types of fabric woven over a relatively narrow loom and therefore had a narrower width. Different sources describe distinctive widths for narrow cloths as a rule width more than two yards was called broadcloth and less than one yard , narrow cloth. Narrow cloth was also designated with width less than 29 inches.
''Narrow ware articles'' and ''Narrow ware woven'' were alternate terms of narrow fabrics.