Purchased. Registered File number 1986/1217.
The width of the silk (over 0.5 ell wide according to the English ell) is French. Either fashions changed or it was too obviously French since it would, technically, have been illegal to sell it in England at the time. The inscription on the roller suggests that 13 yards had already been sold, perhaps three dress lengths.
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Purchased. Registered File number 1986/1217.
The width of the silk (over 0.5 ell wide according to the English ell) is French. Either fashions changed or it was too obviously French since it would, technically, have been illegal to sell it in England at the time. The inscription on the roller suggests that 13 yards had already been sold, perhaps three dress lengths.