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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of gems, or similar ornament, worn on the head, like the 'Silk, Silver, and Italian Egretts for the Hair' promoted by … immitation of GARNETs, for the hair, ITALIAN Found made of SILK, SILVER Sources: Tradecards. Air gun OED, using a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… did some time (say a century) ago. The woollen cloth and silk manufactures were formerly actively carried on; these …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… as a name for a TEXTILE in the form of a soft light glossy SILK made entirely of ORGANZINE, and often BLACK [Kerridge … alamodes were perceived by the authorities; as a 'plain silk' [Acts (1692)], as a WROUGHT SILK [Acts (1698)], as a 'black plain silk' [Patents (1688)], …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the chief occupation of the lower class of inhabitants: a silk-mill, occupying the site of the abbeymill, affords …
Survey of London
… effect of every thing about them, and the dead coloured silk with which the soffas are to be covered, must have gold …
Old and New London
… button-makers, goldsmiths, pursemakers, drapers, and silk-weavers, and the first Flemish silk-throwers settled here. In 1569 the number of inhabitants …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… perhaps Portuguese of c. 1600; ( b) ground-work of golden silk embroidered in gold thread, three panels of red velvet … crowns, perhaps French, 17th-century; ( c) ground-work of silk brocade, panels of green velvet embroidered with a … late 17th or early 18th-century; ( d) ground-work of silk brocade, panels of blue velvet embroidered in gold and …
A History of the County of Essex
… lace-maker; 4 worked in the clothing trade, and 3 in a silk factory. 3 In 1871 there were 79 agricultural labourers. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… suggests it was originally a STRIPED fabric of COTTON and SILK mixture, but those from other parts of the sub-continent … Montgomery [Montgomery (1984)], which was of mixed SILK and COTTON, probably striped, and imported in the early … of stamp duty reveals they were also printed on LINEN and SILK [Newspapers (1798)]. They were highly popular, selling …
A History of the County of Stafford
… listed in 1834, John Weston and William Wood, the latter a silk, twist, and button manufacturer. 24 Women button makers … 13 in 1851, and 21 in 1861. Both men and women worked as silk weavers during the same period: 4 were recorded in 1841, …