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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… woollen-cloth that of a fabric, partly composed of linen-yarn chiefly imported from Germany, and partly of cotton. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the woollen manufacture is confined to the weaving of the yarn spun in private families into what are called hanner …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… books from London to Calais, under the colour of worsted yarn, and stating that he had immediately appointed Mr. … books, directed, under the pretence of a barrel of worsted yarn, to certain inhabitants of the City, and requiring him …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… letting outside suppliers take the profits of whatever yarn was produced, and direct control by the overseers, but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… linen was already flourishing early in the 18th century. Yarn was imported from Holland to supplement flax, locally …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of cotton on a smaller scale. For the spinning of worsted-yarn, and the weaving of worsted goods, there are not less …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… several of the females were employed in spinning yarn; but, at present, there is only one spinning-wheel in …
London Bridge
… bead-hook [ bydehook] for 1 boat, 3d. Item for 1 lb. cable-yarn [ Cabelyern] for mending the cable, 3d. Item paid to …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… As a colour: Found describing CAMLET, COAT, KERSEY, TAMMY, YARN See also CLOD BRIMSTONE, QUICK BRIMSTONE, STONE … for example, BLUES, in which the already whitened WOOLLEN YARN was usually dyed before weaving. Brown blue was …