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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… extent, employing nearly 500 looms; the weaving of dowlas has also been introduced, both for the home trade and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… and Brittany, are disposed of. The realm is furnished with dowlas, buckrams, poldavies, and other Breton cloths, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… it was measured by the ELL, and apparently similar to DOWLAS in price and appearance. It may be the same as …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… six and thirty pounds per cent., or else for wine, brandy, dowlas, and other sorts of linen cloth, silks, alamode and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… than the English do, especialy salt, wine, brandy, canvas, dowlas, kentin, nails, and rosin also some silk, there being …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and Newburgh; the principal fabrics are white linens and dowlas, and in the weaving of these, and in spinning and … articles are linen goods, consisting of checks, drills, dowlas, sheetings, and other fabrics, in making which about …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… manufacturers of Dundee; the principal articles woven are dowlas and Osnaburghs, in which about 150 persons are …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… chief manufacture is of the linens usually called duck and dowlas, which is carried on to a considerable extent, through …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… kinds of linen goods, principally towelling, sheeting, dowlas, and duck; but about the year 1810, the manufacture of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… into cloth of different fabrics, consisting of fine dowlas and drill, but especially Osnaburghs and coarse …