A baize-covered snooker table.

Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth, sometimes called "felt" in American English based on a similarity in appearance. Woollen ( American English: woolen) is the name of a Yarn and Cloth usually made from Wool. Cotton is a soft staple Fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant ( Gossypium sp A textile is a flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial Fibres often referred to as thread or Yarn. Felt is a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting condensing and pressing fibers Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. It is most often used on snooker and billiards tables to cover the slate and cushions. A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards-type games TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles

A closeup of the weave of worsted baize. Worsted (pronunciation) is the name of a Yarn, the Cloth made from this yarn and a yarn weight category This particular sample is Simonis 720, a high-end pocket billiards (pool) cloth; it is napless, unlike snooker cloth, and smooth and non-fuzzy, unlike typical bar pool cloth. Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles Primarily nap is the raised (fuzzy surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as Velvet. Snooker is a Cue sport that is played on a large Baize -covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles

The surface finish of baize is not very fine (and thus increases friction, perceptibly slowing the balls down, from a player's perspective). Billiard balls are used in Cue sports, such as Carom billiards, pool, and Snooker. Baize is available with and without a perceptible nap; snooker, in which understanding of the effects of the nap is part of the game, uses the nappy variety, while pocket billiards (pool) and carom billiards use the napless type. Primarily nap is the raised (fuzzy surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as Velvet. Snooker is a Cue sport that is played on a large Baize -covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from Table baize is available in many grades, with pool halls preferring smooth, "fast" worsted woolen baize, while rather more fuzzy, "slow" cloth is common used for bar/pub pool. A billiard[s], pool or snooker hall (or parlo[u]r or room) (sometimes written poolhall, snookerhall Worsted (pronunciation) is the name of a Yarn, the Cloth made from this yarn and a yarn weight category TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles

A similar cloth sample as in the image above left, from farther away and with an American-sized pool ball for scale.

For gaming use it is traditionally dyed green, in mimicry of a lawn (see Cue sport, "History"), thus the common (British English) phrase "the green baize", a metaphoric way to refer to snooker itself. A dye can generally be described as a Colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the Today, a wide variety of colours are now used for tables (for other uses such as clothing it has always been available in other colours).

The word is related to the cloth term "bays" (sometimes encountered as "bays and says").

See also

• Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

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