A type of patterned or figured fabric, possibly silk, used in historical luxury clothing and ornamental applications.
From Italian or Persian origins, arriving in English through Renaissance trade routes. The exact etymology is disputed; it may be related to words for patterning or to place names in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Camoca appears in only a handful of royal inventories and then vanishes from records—it's one of those fabrics that was probably expensive, fashionable for 20 years, then everyone forgot about it!
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