They are in Excellent Plastic, triple weighted with a billiard cloth.
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Whistler had the entire billiard room painted the colour of the billiard cloth, and elsewhere painted his favourite yellow with his own hand.
3.
Cue tip chalk ( invented in its modern form by straight rail billiard pro William A . Spinks and chemist billiard cloth, but available today, like the cloth, in many colors ) and a binder ( glue ).
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He would wear trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend, an immense sombrero, a flaming beard cut to a point, and a single, large blue earring.
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This is, I think, especially important for strong claims about, say, the " most famous maker of billiard cloth . " The same is true for the " Billiard cues " subsection; it's definitely long enough to have further in-line citations.
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In the 1800s, true chalk ( generally calcium carbonate lumps, suspended from strings ), and even plaster was often used, but players experimented with other powdery, abrasive substances, since true chalk had a deleterious effect on the game equipment, not only discoloring the billiard cloth but also allegedly damaging the fabric.