In Australia and New Zealand, bed linen (and general household materials, such as towels) is called manchester. Stores have a department that is called manchester, where you buy such things.

Apparently, this originates from the time when all household wares had to be imported. The best linen at that time was made in Manchester (UK) and so people would ask for "Manchester linen". This gradually became shortened, so we now call it "manchester".

Now that this sort of thing is now made of "best Egyptian cotton", I wonder if we'll start to call it "Egyptian"?