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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, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of dark soil from which have come large stones, part of a saddle quern, a quantity of Iron Age pottery and a few Roman …
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, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… etc. The term was also used elliptically for YORKSHIRE CLOTH. OED earliest date of use: c1386 Found describing ALE, … STOCKINGS Found described as RED See also YORKSHIRE CLOTH, YORKSHIRE HAM. Sources: Inventories (early), … (mid-period), Newspapers, Rates, Tradecards. Yorkshire cloth [yorkesheir cloth; yorckshire cloth] No entry in the …
Survey of London
… also there lay a thousand pieces of fine holland cloth Furthermore there was also all the walls of the gallery …