Calico

Calico is a heavy plain woven cotton textile, made from unbleached and often incompletely processed cotton that may retain unseparated husk material, giving a fabric coarser than muslin but lighter than canvas or denim and inexpensive because of its unfinished, undyed state. The cloth takes its name from the city of Calicut in southwestern India, where it originated and was traditionally produced by weavers known as caliyans. Once brought to Europe the raw fabric was dyed and printed in bright patterns, and these calico prints became widely popular, helping establish calico as one of the most consequential textile technologies traded between South Asia and Europe.