I think it's a regional thing. Mom called it material, now I call it fabric.

To me it is old-fashioned but it is so history! What we know without history being told to us!!

when I first started here and sometimes still I called it material; I had to make a cautious effort to call it fabric just to fit in

When I was a kid it was material and now it is fabric. My grandmother called it cloth. Is it soda or pop? Depends on what part of the country you live in.

Yes, same with me. I learned to sew in a High School Home Ec class and we, including the teacher, always used the word material in those days. Now, since reading this blog, I have switched to the word, fabric, but occasionally "material" will still slip in. Old habits die hard, lol!

I can remember when it was mainly called material, and when some people called it cloth, but it has been called "fabric" in more recent times. I don't know when it changed,or why.

ok,

Materialize or Fabricate

Both something made from "Cloth"

Ha Ha Ha

Locally there's a store called "Material Girls", and they ain't talkin about fabric! :hunf:

My mother always called it material but when I came south they
called it fabric.

I've also heard it called "piece goods." What we called "outing", short for outing flannel, is now "flannel." And we wore thongs on our feet; "Here comes Peter Cottontale" line--"things to make your Easter bright and gay." LOL!