Tiny nitpick… I know that the toy distributor is the one calling them plush, but plush generally refers to a type of fabric with a long pile or nap, an extreme example being fake fur - and plush toys are ones made of that fabric. The Star Wars vehicles are soft toys, fabric toys, or even stuffed toys - but the fabric doesn’t appear to actually be plush.
Which is fine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=plush+fabric&tbm=isch
Plush (from French peluche) is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet. Its softness of feel gave rise to the adjective "plush" to describe something soft or luxurious, which was extended to describe luxury accommodation, or something rich and full. Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush. The soft ...
Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet or moleskin. Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat. Starting around the 14th century, the word referred originally to the roughness of woven cloth before it was sheared. When cloth, especially woollen cloth, is woven, the surface of the cloth is not smooth, and this roughness is the nap. Generally the cloth is then ...
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They need to be bigger; pillow sized.
xeni
August 26, 2014, 7:51pm
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