A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.
Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or weaving of woolens.
A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
of poor quality or inferior workmanship.
of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"
A woollen cloth made from reprocessed or regenerated wool fibre often obtained from old woollen rags. The process of was developed in Britain in 1806 by two Yorkshiremen, Messrs Law and Parr. By 1832 the term shoddy to mean woollen cloth made from recycled, shredded woollen rags and became the mainstay of the West Yorkshire woollen trade providing warm clothing for the mass market. The shoddy industry has now moved to Italy and northern India. See mungo.
Material for making uniforms at the beginning of the war that was described in a factual article in Harper's Monthly at the time as "a villainous compound, the refuse stuff and sweepings of the shop, pounded, rolled, glued, and smoothed to the external form and gloss of cloth, but no more like the genuine article than the shad is to the substance. . . ." A.N.Y. Tribune writer called it "poor sleezy stuff, woven open enough for seives [sic], and then filled with shearman's dust" The magazine article continued: "Soldiers, on the first day's march or in the earliest storm, found their clothes, overcoats, and blanket, scattering to the win in rags or dissolving into their primitive elements of dust under the pelting rain"
Fibrous woollen material generated from waste fabric. Historically this term was given to the waste from more loosely woven fabrics.
fabric often of inferior quality manufactured wholly or partly from reclaimed wool.
