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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… described by mathered, woaded See also BLACK AND BROWN THREAD, PRINTERS BLACK. Sources: Acts, Diaries, Houghton, … AND WHITE. Sources: Inventories (early). Black and brown thread [threeds coloured black & browne; blacke and browne … & coloured thred; black & brown thrid; black & brown thread; black & bn thrid; bl' & browne thred; b'k & bro …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of LB Sources: Acts, Inventories (late), Newspapers. Black thread [threde blacke; thredd blacke; thred vocat black; red … cullered thrid] It is not clear whether this is a type of THREAD, as is BROWN THREAD and BLACK AND BROWN THREAD, or merely one dyed BLACK. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Blocking twine [blocking tw_ne] A thin CORD or thick THREAD found associated with PACKTHREAD, which suggests it …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The bounds began at the head of Radwell ford, followed the thread of Ribble as far as the middle of Longnat, and by …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… STUFF, SUIT, SULTANE, TABBY, TAFFETA, TAMMY, TAPE, THREAD, VALANCE, VELVET, WADMAL, WAISTCOAT, WASHING LACE, … Blue Sources: Patents. References: Partington (1953). Blue thread [blue thrid; blue thr'd; blew thred] The best known blue THREAD was COVENTRY BLUE, but whether all were necessarily of …
A New History of London
… flour, cheese, and bacon; East India goods, linen, thread, tapes, sail-cloth, iron, copper and brass ware, lead, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in a fashion similar to the CERING CANDLE in treating THREAD. Not found in the OED online Sources: Acts. Book of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the mills of Messrs. Towle, where the manufacture of lace-thread is carried on, giving employment to about 250 hands. …