"Baize" vs. "Cloth": What is the difference?

[Mr. Bond]

Very interesting.

I wonder what was the slow-as-hell cloth from the 60s and 70s was. You know, the stuff that everybody seems to have to grown up on and says you needed a huge stroke to move the CB around. I grew up on bar tables, and I know that stuff was slow as molasses, but hadn't the fine worsted blends been well established as the cloth of choice on the 9' tournament tables by then? When did Simonis hit the scene with 760?

Yes.
The slow fuzzy stuff is just standard woolen billiard cloth, and has always been around since the 'days of baize', and, since its considerably cheaper to produce than fine worsted cloth, it will probably continue to be around for a long time to come...

I'm not sure of the exact time frame for that simonis product, I can ask Ivan and see if he knows.