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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wilton, and the only manufacture now carried on is that of tape. The parish produces stone of good quality for building, …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Holland for Curtains for the Masters Lodge and for rings, tape and making. Blomfield, John, Baker's Rd, Norwich, cm …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… used for binding edges; hence HANDLEBAND, STAY BAND and TAPE BAND. OED earliest date of use in this sense: c1325 Much …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… measured for sale by PIECE See also BED LACE, BINDING TAPE. Sources: Inventories (early). Beef [beife; befe; …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… STOCKINGS, STUFF, SUIT, SULTANE, TABBY, TAFFETA, TAMMY, TAPE, THREAD, VALANCE, VELVET, WADMAL, WAISTCOAT, WASHING …
Survey of London
… even heard a word of it and would not believe it. Red Tape was supreme in its faculty of doing nothing'. 189 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… he employed over 250 people in making smallwares (cotton tape, binding, and braid). 16 Cooke sold the mills in 1847, … mill in the later 1850s. 18 The former was continued as a tape mill, John Taverner being the only partner remaining by …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… & Bases & tamme to back line D o. 0 17 0 Brass Rings Silk tape thread Studs tax &c 10 6 To Makeing the Furniture and … were paid for in April 1751 and further harateen, tape and a coverlid supplied in 1753. [D; S of G, app. index; … included various charges for fringes, brackets, thread, tape etc.) 1768 January: For 8 french pattern arm'd Chairs …