100 ends per inch in the finished fabric, while a cheap-grade, less than 60. At the same time, with development of an interest in coloured shirts, cambric was also woven in colours, such as the pink fabric used by Charvet for a corsage, reducing the difference between cambric and chambray. Moreover, the development and rationalization of mechanical weaving led to the replacement, for chambray, of coloured warp and white weft by the opposite, white warp and coloured weft, which allowed for longer warps. In popular culture The English folk song ballad "Scarborough Fair" has the lyric in the second verse "Tell her to make me a cambric shirt / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Sewn without seams or fine needlework, / Then she'll be a true love of mine." It also appears in the David Bowie song, "Come and Buy My Toys" in the lyrics, "You shall own a cambric shirt, you shall work your father's land." In the Andrzej Sapkowski Witcher novel, The Last Wish, Renfri described her privileged upbringing, referring to "...dresses, shoes. Cambric knickers. Jewels and trinkets..." as if suggesting that the cambric material was an indication of the fabric's high quality. In Agatha Christie's novel Murder on the Orient Express, a cambric handkerchief with an H monogram is one of the clues in the murder. In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Angelica, daughter of Captain Blackbeard, wears a white cambric shirt. See also Lawn Nainsook Gingham References External links Article on cambric The history of cambric's use in clothing Woven fabrics Lace Needlework Cambrai