piece goods

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Fabrics made and sold in standard lengths. Also called yard goods.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. All kinds of cotton, linen, silk, or wool fabrics which are woven in lengths suitable for retail sale by the usual linear measure, as calicoes, shirtings, sheetings, mulls, jaconets, and long cloths.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard