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A History of the County of Stafford
… screws from iron provided by local forges, while the screw thread was ground at a works acquired in the mid 1780s at …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… & tamme to back line D o. 0 17 0 Brass Rings Silk tape thread Studs tax &c 10 6 To Makeing the Furniture and … fasten the Hangings too 115 For 329 yds of strong Cloth, thread and sewing do to go under the damask Hangings of the … account included various charges for fringes, brackets, thread, tape etc.) 1768 January: For 8 french pattern arm'd …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1770s that the problem of producing a strong, even warp thread was fully resolved. OED earliest date of use: 1540 as …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… on to a very considerable extent; the manufacture of thread affords employment to several hundreds of men and …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… In April, 1 horses, falcons, woollen and linen thread, and in May, 2 wine, corn, beer, animals, flesh and … of the latter kind was the one with regard to woollen thread, which apparently included worsted, mentioned above 1 …
Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
… embroidered, brocaded, and sometimes interwoven with gold thread. This was the "peremptory oath" admissible in actions …
Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls
… that whereas the plaintiff handed to Maud a cloth 1 of thread of wool ( une leyne de fillaz de leyne) value 12s 6d, … wife Alice, demanded and carried away half a cloth of thread of wool ( dimidium filacium lane), value ½ mark. The …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… lastly, some of which the warp is of wool and the woof of thread. Some are dyed in thread, others are dyed in the piece, others are marked or …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1583 under Pirl Found rated by the GROSS See also CANTLET THREAD. Sources: Rates. Cantlet thread [thred called cantlet; cantlet thred] A term not … Book of Rates. The three entries there suggest it was a THREAD, probably GOLD THREAD, SILVER THREAD or SILK THREAD, …
Old and New London
… a distaff, emblematic of the name of the lane, and of the thread used by cordwainers or shoemakers. In the pediment are …