| SAMITE | Heavy fabric of silk used in the Middle Ages for clothing (6) |
| CARPET | Floor covering of thick heavy fabric of wool, cotton, synthetic fibers |
| RIBBONS | Narrow strips often of silk used for decoration or trimming (7) |
| ECRU | Light brown colour as raw silk used in new cure |
| TULLE | Soft fine silk used in veil-making (5) |
| SAUCER | Piece of tableware, used in the Middle Ages for serving condiments |
| CURFEW | Word in the Middle Ages for the ringing of a bell as a signal to extinguish all hearth fires, later a regulation requiring people to remain indoors, often at night (6) |
| MICRON | Comical acronym used in the middle to denote length |
| COBRAS | Jacobin phrases used in the middle are particularly venomous |
| KNIGHT | Wrongly think it's about middle age for a horseman (6) |
| EASING | Adjustment in ages for review (6) |
| FRIEZE | Heavy fabric that can be used for an architectural feature |
| ULSTER | Loose long overcoat of heavy fabric (6) |
| DAMASK | Rich, heavy fabric with a pattern woven into it (6) |
| STATIONER | A word in the Middle Ages for a bookseller, later a purveyor of ink, paper, parchment, pens and other such writing materials (9) |
| GEESE | Look back in the Middle Ages for such birds |
| VELOUR | Heavy fabric that resembles velvet (6) |
| TWEEDS | Heavy fabrics |
| LAPISLAZULI | Semi-precious stone prized since antiquity for its blue color, it was also used in the Middle Ages to make the expensive ultramarine pigment prized by artists (5,6) |
| KOHL | Black cosmetic used in the Middle East and North Africa to darken the edge of the eyes (4) |
