My grandmother was a seamstress in a sewing factory for years upon years, and I often heard her refer to the 'salvages' or pieces of fabric that weren't quite big enough for a job, so the seamstresses could take the salvages home. Grandma had a huge bin of salvages that we girls (cousins and playmates) could use to drape our dolls in in great elegance, or so we thought. I hadn't thought of this word (so-applied to sewing) in quite a while, wwh. Thanks for the memories.