18thcenturyfop:Suit ensembleThis fawn-coloured coat and matching waistcoat (c. 1765-1775) are made o
18thcenturyfop:Suit ensembleThis fawn-coloured coat and matching waistcoat (c. 1765-1775) are made of broad cloth, a woollen fabric woven on a wide loom. Broad cloth was not always of exactly the same width. The Universal Magazine recorded in 1764: ‘Burstall is a little town, noted for the manufacture of a Broad-cloth, so called to distinguish it from kerseys, druggets, & though the cloths of this country are all called narrow at London, when compared with the broad-cloths made in the West of England’. -- source link
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