It is made from both carded and combed yarns, and may be woven of various fibers, such as cotton, polyester, or various blends.[2] Moris or mauris was the 18th-century French term used for percale, the cloth imported from India.Coromandel coastline forms a part of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.[10] The word may originate from the Persian: پرگاله : pargālah, meaning rag,[11][12] although the Oxford English Dictionary (as of December 2005) has traced it only as far as 18th-century French.The dictionary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans describes pexal and perxal as some kind of silk fabric in the year 1348 in Valencia.