The bronze script of character Cloth is
The bottom is character Towel - 巾（Post 172），the top is character Father - 父（Post 166), which is a hand holding a stick or bar, meaning he works hard, and has power to punish family members. Here it means to hit the flax to make linen, the earliest cloth for Chinese.
The big seal script of character Cloth is
Similar to bronze script.
The small seal script of character Cloth is
The bottom 巾（towel) is similar to bronze or big seal script. The top is hand holding the stick which is very short, and connected with hand which is difficult to separate it from the hand, lost the pictography.
The clerical script of character Cloth is
The bottom 巾 is still very similar to older scripts, but the top hand with stick changed dramatically, please use your imagination to figure out how it became the current form from the small seal script.
The Pinyin of the character is Bu4.
The bottom 巾 is still very similar to older scripts, but the top hand with stick changed dramatically, please use your imagination to figure out how it became the current form from the small seal script. 
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