News covering article piercing fabric (7)
I believe the answer is:
nankeen
'fabric' is the definition.
(nankeen is a kind of fabric)
'news covering article piercing' is the wordplay.
'news' becomes 'nn' (I've seen this in other clues).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'article' becomes 'a' (indefinite article).
'piercing' becomes 'keen' ('keen' can be a synonym of 'piercing').
'nn' enclosing 'a' is 'nan'.
'nan'+'keen'='NANKEEN'
(Other definitions for nankeen that I've seen before include "hard-wearing stuff" , "Chinese cotton cloth" , "Yellowish cotton cloth" , "mustard colour" , "Buff colour" .)