Examples of cloth

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The paupers confined in hospitals and almshouses were often obliged to wear institutional clothing which was made from coarse cloths, linen and hemp.
She was owed 'for weaving of three cloths, whereof one is ten pence work and two (are) eight pence work '.
The capital devoted to the clothmaking business suggests that he might have up to four cloths in production at one time.
First, they had sufficient capital at their disposal to purchase and hold stocks of finished cloths.
Most small masters were probably responsible for no more than ten or twenty broadcloths per year, or an equivalent combination of broad and narrow-list cloths.
Rather than using five yards as the standard size of a wrapper, many began to cut the cloths in four-yard or three-yard pieces.
Women primarily used vertical looms that produced cloths averaging 21 inches in width.
By and large, however, kanga cloths became an extremely important new consumer item, particularly for urban women.
By 1615 they were selling seals without even looking at the cloths !
Often particular attention was given to the decoration and placing of the pulpit, while elaborate pulpit cloths were bought or donated.
Much to our regret, if only for a faint scent, the grease-stained cloths were tossed into the open fire.
The weaving of different quality cloths was remunerated at different rates.
Admittedly, a small number of master weavers, or 'kerseymakers' manufactured their own cloths.
Clothiers' inventories reveal that wealthier clothiers always produced a sizeable amount of fine quality cloths, while the small fry did not.
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