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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… as BROAD, BROWN, COARSE, COLLAR, COLOURED, for CROSS STITCH, CUSHION, ELBING, ELL BROAD, DUTCH, ENGLISH, FINE, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… him a new pair, to which tailor he called to strike [? stitch] up his hose, saying 'It is said, I hear say, that I …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… I am so arrested with a vehement cold and such a crick or stitch between my shoulders as that I cannot (but with great …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… They mostly seem to revolve round the use of chain stitch; hence 'eight peare of stockings cheaned with silke at … lace] The OED tentatively suggests LACE made with chain stitch, using a supporting quotation dated 1598: 'little chaines, chaine-lace, or chaine stitch'. Chain lace has only been noted in the Dictionary …