A Classic Fabric made by the same company since 1783

Fabric:
78" wide (2 m)

Also sold in
39" (1 m) squares

95% wool
5% nylon
This fabric drapes beautifully. The nylon has been added for strength.

Small samples (4" x 5") only are available for this fabric.

Price:
$ 129. per yard 78"wide

$ 69. for a 39"
(1 m) square

All prices are in Canadian dollars. Please use our Currency Converter

History of Wool Baize

We tracked down this wonderful traditional fabric in England, where the company making it has been in operation since 1783. A durable woven fabric, and not to be confused with felt, baize is often compared with billiard table cloth.

Wool baize has many traditional applications, such as covering the tops of card tables or lining showcases. Baize has also been used to line built-in sideboards; lining silverware drawers or cupboards. It has also covered the "servant's side" of a door between kitchen and dining room in large old homes in order to help sound-proof kitchen noise. You can read references to "behind the green-baize door" in old books - though sometimes other colours were also used. The baize was mounted on the kitchen side of the door with with brass-headed tacks, sometimes in a decorative design.

The baize also makes wonderful protective day-time table covers for dining room tables as seen in our historic photograph.

A Wool Baize tablecover with self-fringing, is shown in this 1880's Dining Room

Colours are as accurate as on-line technology will allow.
To ensure best colour match, please send for samples.