_Nankeen._ A cotton cloth originally made at Nankin, China, from a yellow variety of cotton and afterwards made at Manchester and elsewhere of ordinary cotton and dyed yellow. Make his breeches of nankeen (1755). His nankeen small clothes were tied with 16 strings at each knee (1774). _Niccanee._ A cotton fabric formerly imported from India. Mentioned in the London Gazette in 1712. _Nilla._ A cotton fabric from India. There are two sorts, striped and plain, by the buyers called Bengals ... used for Gowns and Pettycoats (1696). _Noyals_, _Noyles_, _Nowells_. A canvas fabric made at Noyal, France. Noyals canvas (1662). Vitry and noyals canvas (1721). _Osnaburg Oznabrig_, _Ossembrike_. A coarse linen cloth formerly made at Osnabruck, Germany. Ossenbrudge for a towell to the Lye tabyll (1555). A pair of Oznabrigs trowsers (1732). _Pack Cloth._ A stout, coarse cloth used for packing. Packed up in a bundle of pack cloth (1698). _Padusoy_, _Padaway_. A strong corded or gross-grain silk fabric, much worn by both sexes in the eighteenth century. _Padusay_ was a kind of serge made in Padua and imported into England since 1633 or earlier. A pink plain poudesoy (1734). A laced paduasoy suit (1672). A petticoat lined with muddy-colored pattissway (1704). A glossy paduasoy (1730). A fine laced silk waistcoat of blue paduasoy (1741). _Palmeretts._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757. _Pantolanes._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1661). _Pantossam._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1661). _Paragon._ A kind of double camlet used for dress and upholstery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 12 yards of water paragon at 5/8 and 5 yards of French green paragon at 25/10 (1618). Hangings for a room of green paragon (1678). Black paragon for a gown (1678). _Parisnet_, Black and White. Boston News-Letter, Dec. 18, 1760. _Patch._ A kind of highly glazed printed cotton, usually in bright-colored floral designs, used for window draperies and bed hangings. Advertised in Boston News-Letter, June 24, 1742. English and India patches. Boston News-Letter, Dec. 18, 1760. _Pealong_, White English. Boston Gazette, Mar. 30, 1734. _Pellony._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1680). _Penistone_, _Penniston_. A coarse woolen cloth made at Penistone, Co. Yorkshire, England, used for garments, linings, etc. Clothes called pennystone or forest whites (1552). Red peniston for petticoats (1616). _Pentado._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1680). _Perpetuana._ A durable woolen fabric manufactured in England from the sixteenth century, similar to _everlasting_, _durance_, etc. The sober perpetuana-suited Puritan (1606). A counterpane for the yellow perpetuana bed (1648). _Philip._ A kind of worsted or woolen stuff of common quality. 12 yards of philip and cheney for a coat for Mrs. Howard (1633). My red bed of Phillip and China (1650). _Pocking Cloth._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1674).