buckram

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They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

Mrs. Beane made her hats the old-fashioned way, wetting buckram — a stiff cotton — into molds decorated with all manner of fabrics.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

Albums come with silk, linen, leather or buckram covers, and endless embossing options.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2017

It was made of buckram and silver fabric and sequins, but it was stiff and looked like the chrysalis of an insect which had vacated it.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013

The frilled skirt was underpinned with buckram to make it flare.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy