The name Holland cloth, or simply Holland, can refer to one of two types of fabric: - "A hard-wearing, plain-woven linen fabric originally made in the Netherlands, used esp. for making clothing, bedding, and towels and for covering furniture; (in later use also) a smooth cotton or linen fabric treated with a mixture of oil and sizing or starch to give it an opaque finish, used esp. for making window blinds."
a plainwoven or dull-finish linen used as furniture covering a cotton or linen fabric made more or less opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish (the Holland finish)
First documented in English in 1427, the name originally applied to any fine, plain-woven linen imported from Europe, and particularly from the Netherlands.
Holland cloth is used for window-shades, insulation, labels and tags, sign cloth, etc.
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