In Canada, broadcloth often refers to a poly/cotton blend solid coloured fabric which I don't want in my quilts. It's the stuff many quilters used in the 1970's and 1980's before solid 100% cotton fabrics were available. I find that I rarely use solid colours in my quilting (black being the exception). I'd far rather use a mottly, tone-on-tone, speckled, blender small print fabric that "reads" like a solid. These fabrics seem to give more life and movement to your quilt. These are also the fabrics that I didn't know that you needed when I started quilting. I always thought of them as the bland boring fabrics not realizing their value. Lately that's the only kind of fabric I buy as I have enough of the "wow" stuff to last a very long time.