1821 W. Read (ed. 2) 111 Till his last five-franc piece cast a gleam of reproach in his eyes from its perilous birth on the yellow-lined card cloth.
1851 p. v**/1 To make card-cloth, hides of leather are cut up into strips.
2012 Which Carder Cloth? in www.classiccarder.co.uk 24 Aug. (accessed 18 Mar. 2020) Card cloth is measured by the amount of teeth per inch (tpi).