Perhaps an odd one this - but in case it's useful...
In the Middle Ages, local cottage industries in a particular place specialized in weaving a particular type of cloth. And sometimes that type of cloth was named after the city it came from.
Here are a few examples:
buckram < Bukhara
calico < Kozhikode (formerly Calicut, India)
damask < Damascus
denim < Nîmes
duffel < Duffel (Belgium)
jean < Genoa
lawn < Laon
madras < Madras (nowadays renamed Chennai)
muslin < Mosul
satin < some place name in China rendered in Arabic as Zaytûn
In the Middle Ages, local cottage industries in a particular place specialized in weaving a particular type of cloth. And sometimes that type of cloth was named after the city it came from.
Here are a few examples:
buckram < Bukhara
calico < Kozhikode (formerly Calicut, India)
damask < Damascus
denim < Nîmes
duffel < Duffel (Belgium)
jean < Genoa
lawn < Laon
madras < Madras (nowadays renamed Chennai)
muslin < Mosul
satin < some place name in China rendered in Arabic as Zaytûn
