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The paper concerns eponyms, i.e. lexems derived from proper names, pertaining to fabrics and materials in the German language. The research material was excerpted from the publication "Eigennamen im deutschen Wortschatz. Ein Lexikon" by Rudolf Köster. The article seeks to answer three questions, i.e. as to: what forms the examined lexems take on, where they come from, and what the causes of their belonging to one of the three grammatical types are.