Related Clues:

• Elias Howe invention
• Important requirement for making clothes
• Some characters layoff a bricklayer in construction, in the building sense
• Significant chum with money in Oman
• Cloth; matter
• Fine crab's roaming island tucking into stuff
• Duck in fish net - presumably that's a yarn!
• Indispensable couple with Omani bread
• Frenchman wanting English material
• Financial authority opens unfinished building unit, sold by the yard
• Important friend facing hearing when leader quits
• Team liar reinvented stuff
• Cloth or fabric
• A decent chap, mostly chasing fine material
• Essential cloth