Native American welcoming fashionable people with new material from France (8)
I believe the answer is:
cretonne
'material from france' is the definition.
'cretonne' can be an answer for 'material' (cretonne is a kind of material). I am not sure about the 'from france' bit.
'native american welcoming fashionable people with new' is the wordplay.
'native american' becomes 'cree' (an indigenous people of North America).
'welcoming' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'inviting in').
'fashionable people' becomes 'ton' ('the ton' could once mean fashionable society).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'ton' going around 'n' is 'tonn'.
'cree' going around 'tonn' is 'CRETONNE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cretonne that I've seen before include "heavy material" , "Type of cotton fabric" , "Heavy fabric used for furniture covers and curtains" , "Heavy (floral) cotton fabric" , "Heavy fabric used for slipcovers and draperies" .)