Flannel vs. Wool — What's the Difference?

Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber.

Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, hide and fur clothing from bison, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.Wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. In this regard it is chemically quite distinct from the more dominant textile, cotton, which is mainly cellulose.

A kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised

The fine, soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and prepared for use in making cloth or yarn

A small piece of towelling used for washing oneself.

The dense, soft, often curly hair forming the coat of sheep and certain other mammals, such as the goat and alpaca, consisting of cylindrical strands of keratin covered by minute overlapping scales and much valued as a textile fiber.

Bland fluent talk indulged in to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly

Fabric or yarn made of this hair.

Use bland fluent talk to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly.

Hairy or downy material on a plant or animal, as on certain caterpillars.

A soft woven cloth of wool or a blend of wool and cotton or synthetics.

Filamentous or fibrous material similar to the wool of a sheep or other mammal.

Outer clothing, especially pants, made of this cloth.

The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

Underclothing made of this cloth.

A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.

Flannelette.

Anything with a texture like that of wool.

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.

A washcloth.

(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

A flannel shirt.

Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.

Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

Made of flannel.

The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; - chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

(transitive) To rub with a flannel.

Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

(transitive) To wrap in flannel.

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

(transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

A fabric made from the hair of sheep

To waffle or prevaricate.

Fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

A cotton fabric with a thick nap on one side, resembling flannel{1}; it is used, e. g. for underwear or sheets; also called flanellette.

Garments made of flannel, especially underwear.

A washcloth.

Humbug; nonsensical or evasive talk.

Insincere flattery or praise.

A soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing

Bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body

(usually in the plural) trousers