Kerseymere is a fine woolen cloth with a fancy twill weave. In printing fine work during the mid-19th century, the blankets that lay between the Tympans were either fine kerseymere or superfine woolen cloth (see A Dictionary of The Art of Printing by William Savage, Burt Franklin: New York, 1841.)

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