Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay ColonyDow, George Francis
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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dow, George Francis
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
_Tobine._ Probably a variant of tabby. With lustre shine in simple
lutestring or tobine (1755). Lutestring tobines which commonly are
striped with flowers in the warp and sometimes between the tobine
stripes, with brocaded sprigs (1799). A stout twilled silk (1858).
_Trading Cloth_, see _Duffell_.
_Turynetts._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
_Venetians._ A closely woven cloth having a fine twilled surface,
used as a suiting or dress material.
_Villaranes._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1661).
_Vitry_, _Vittery_. A kind of light durable canvas. Vandolose
[vandelas] or vitrie canvas the ell, 10s. (1612). Narrow vandales or
vittry canvas (1640).
_Water Paragon_, see _Paragon_.
_Witney_, _Whitney_. A heavy, loose woolen cloth with a nap made up
into blankets at Witney, Co. Oxford, England. Also, formerly, a
cloth or coating made there. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag
unshorn (1716). Fine Whitneys at 53 s. a yard, coarse Whitneys at 28
s. (1737).
In the Inventory of the Estate of Henry Landis of Boston,
shopkeeper, taken Dec. 17, 1651, the following fabrics are listed,
viz.:
Black Turky tamet, Green Italiano
Turkie mohaire Say
Green English Tamett Red Calico
Cotton cloth Red Serge
Kersey Cheny
Yellow cotton Double Cheny
Linsie woolsey Red satinesco
English mohaire Olive serge
Mixed Italiano Holland
Grey ditto Tufted Holland
Broadcloth Fine Holland
Green cotton cloth Nuns Holland
Course Yorkshire Kersey Broad dowlas
Tamy Cheny Dowlas
Padway serge Broad lining
Adretto Lockrum
Hair Camelion White Calico
Castelano 1 pr dimity drawers
Herico Italiano 1 pr girls bodys
White serge Addevetto
Perpetuano 2 childs waistcoats at 9 d.
Best ditto 9 tawney bonnets at 16 d.
Mixed serge 46 pr ear wiers at 4 d.
Cloth 17 calico neck cloths at 12 d.
Kersey 2 gro tin buttons at 2/6.
Italiano 9 yds silk galoon at 2-1/2 d.
Sad hair coloured Italiano Breeches bottons
Taunton serge Silk breast buttons
Mixed stuff Hair buttons
Green mixed serge Great silk buttons
Herico Kersey A great variety of silk and bone lace
Green Tamy 1 black satin cap, 3/.
--_Suffolk Co. Probate Records_, Vol. II, p. 127.
CHAPTER VI
PEWTER IN THE EARLY DAYS
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