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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… on goods and merchandise, to wit, wool, skins, hides, cloth, bread, fish, and other things, as well not named as …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wide; yard-wide] A term applied to the width of a piece of cloth. Until the invention of the 'Flying Shuttle' by John … (1766)]. OED earliest date of use: 1766 See also BROAD CLOTH, ELL WIDE. Sources: Acts, Diaries, Inventories (early), … HEMPEN, HOLLAND, HOSE, IRISH, KERSEY, Riga, ROPE, SAIL CLOTH, SPUN, TURKEY, WOOLLEN, WORSTED Found describing HOSE, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the clothdressers, for the purpose of raising the nap on cloth, before it undergoes the operation of shearing. … manufactures consisted formerly of the coarser kinds of cloth; but at present "Yorkshire cloth" no longer conveys the exclusive idea of inferiority, …