Extra Wide Baize, Alabaster

Description

Alabaster Extra Wide British Baize

Alabaster extra wide British baize, the very best surface for cardplay or for Snooker and Pool Billiard tables. Made in England from 95% merino wool / 5% nylon, genuine baize is durable and hardwearing, and also provides the optimum friction when playing card games. Baize is also used extensively by professional furniture restorers and upholsterers for all sorts of projects including drawer lining, lining wooden boxes and trays, covering instrument cases, recovering antique card tables, covering church doors etc.

Baize Sold by the Metre/Bulk Buying

Sold by the metre, we’ll send a continuous length if you buy multiple quantities. The Alabaster extra wide British baize is a faced cloth, which means that the right side has been brushed to give it a special, luxurious finish.

The fabric width is a generous 86.5 inches / 220cm, making it suitable for large upholstery projects such as covering large church doors and boardroom tables. The weight of the fabric is 460gsm (grams per square metre).

Perfect Baize for Snooker and Pool Billiard Tables

The high durability of this cloth make this Baize ideally suited to cover Snooker and Pool Billard tables.

Baize or Felt? A (Shortened) Guide to Choosing the Right Fabric

We at Simon Lucas Bridge Supplies have been making top-quality baize table cloths for bridge for over quarter of a century, so we consider ourselves to be experts on fabrics for card tables and cardplay. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between baize and felt. This isn’t surprising when you search online and find many suppliers describing felt as baize, or a fabric as ‘baize felt’, ‘felt baize’ or even felt/baize as if the two fabrics are the same. They’re not!

It’s important to know whether you’re buying baize or felt, because the two fabrics are very different. Felt is a lightweight fabric made from matted fibres of either wool or a synthetic. Being matted rather than held together in a tight weave, the fibres easily fluff up or ‘pill’ if rubbed. On the other hand, baize is a strong, dense and hard-wearing fabric made from woven strands of wool. If it’s top-quality, such as the fabric we’re selling here which we also use to make our baize bridge cloths, it doesn’t pill and it will look great and last for many years. There really is no comparison between felt and the far superior baize. You can purchase baize from us with complete assurance that you are buying a top-quality fabric.

Read our full guide to buying Baize and Felt wisely

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