She starts with strong woollen cloth turned over and finds a way out (6)
I believe the answer is:
egress
'way out' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'she starts with strong woollen cloth turned over' is the wordplay.
'starts with' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'start with' mean this).
'strong woollen cloth' becomes 'serge' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'turned' is a reversal indicator.
'over' indicates putting letters inside.
The initial letter of 'she' is 's'.
'serge' backwards is 'egres'.
's' placed into 'egres' is 'EGRESS'.
'and finds a' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for egress that I've seen before include "means of leaving" , "Means of escape" , "Action of going out" , "Escape route" , "Come out" .)