Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Camlet

Camlet , noun

[French camelot (akin to Sp. camelote, chamelote, Italian cambellbito, ciambellotto, Late Latin camelotum, camelinum, from Arabic khamlat camlet, from kaml pile, plush. The word was early confused with camel, camel's hair also being used in making it. Compare Calamanco]

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.

They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn.