mockado , auch: mochado , auch: mokkado

Mockado is a woollen pile fabric made in imitation of silk velvet.

Mockado was introduced to England from Flanders in the mid-sixteenth century.

Varieties included plain, with an even pile, and "tuft" or voided mockado.

Mockado was used for furnishings and carpeting, and also for clothing such as doublets, farthingales, and kirtles.

Mockado was usually constructed with a woollen pile on a linen or worsted wool warp and woollen weft, although the ground fabric could be any combination of wool, linen, and silk.

In the seventeenth century, the term mockado ends was used for a wool yarn, probably a worsted yarn similar to crewel yarn of that period, likely used for embroidery and making braids and fringes.

At just the same time Thomas Lodge's moralising pamphlet Wits Miserie (London, 1596) recorded "The farmer that was contented in times past with his Russet Frocke & Mockado sleeues, now sels a Cow against Easter to buy him silken geere for his Credit".