a brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
G. W. Cable
A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban (..) crouched against the wall.
2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company’s items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can’t make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers