10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUN'S CLOTH»
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The Complete Costume Dictionary
A raw silk. num: Vietnam. Button. numbda: See namda. numda: See namda.
nummud: See namda. numna: See namda. numud: See namda. nunda: See
namda. nuno: Japan. Fabric woven of vegetable fibers. nun's cloth: Bustle (1865
—1890 ...
Elizabeth J. Lewandowski, 2011
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The Dictionary of Fashion History
Nun's cloth Period: 1881. “A fine thin untwilled woollen fabric formerly called
mousselaine de laine; it is a kind of bunting.” Nun's thread, sister's thread Period:
16th century. A fine, white thread made in the convents of Italy and Flanders and
...
Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, 2010
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The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles
nun's cloth / nytril nun's cloth A very thin, plain weave, black woolen fabric similar
to bunting. 2. The name derives from its use in nuns' habits at a time when all
nuns wore traditional garb. nun's cotton 1. Sometimes used for fine white cotton ...
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English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century: A ...
NUN's CLOTH. ('81). 'A fine thin untwilled woollen fabric formerly called
mousselaine de laine; it is a kind of bunting.' NUN's VEILING. ('79). Synonymous
with Voile, a kind of thin woollen barege; later, used as a synonym for Nun's Cloth
.
C. Willett Cunnington, 2013
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Cassell's Family Magazine
If you want a stylish boating- dress, choose a soft woollen nun's- cloth of the
eucalyptus shade, with red silk sailor collar and cuffs, or rather turn-back
wristbands, making the sleeves just like a man's shirt. No trimming is necessary,
but if you ...
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The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, ...
Her dress was of green Nun's cloth ; a paletot of diagonal check cloth of same
colour, trimmed with grey fur; felt hat edged with fur, and trimmed with Ottoman
ribbon. A dress of blue woollen Ottoman, trimmed with braid of a darker shade, ...
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A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern
This number provides for identification of the model. nun's cloth. Bunting; fine,
lightweight, woolen fabric in plain, loose weave. Used for dresses. nun's cotton.
Fine, cotton embroidery thread. See THREADS. nun's veiling. Thin, soft, loosely ...
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Household Words: A Weekly Journal
As to clear starched muslins they were dreams of beauty. IN the shop windows
this year the French cleaner displays ostentatiously the dress of satin, cashmere,
or nun's cloth, in some pale colour, all puffed, and frilled, and lace-trimmed, which
, ...
9
Myra's mid-monthly journal and children's dress
Bradford Tweed Manora .., Pomaron Briscoe Nun's Cloth ... Suliaa Phoenix Cloth
Dalkeith Ancrum Bomney Conyngham Greville French and English Cashmeres,
22jd. to 3s. 6d. per yard. READY-MADE MOURNING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
...
EVERY-DAY DRESSES, GARMENTS, ETC. BY EMILY H. MAY-_ No. 1——Is an
evening demi-toilette, of ivorywhite nun's cloth, and pale~blue foulard silk. The
foundation of the skirt is of pale-blue Silesia. It is made just to touch, and two and
...
Charles Jacobs Peterson, 1881
