Price, is a petition of "Merchants and citizens of London that use buying and selling of fustiansmade in England, as of the makers of the same fustians.
A reference to Norwich fustians of as early a date as the 14th century is quoted by Baines.
Arkwright argued that the statute should not include printed or painted cloth made in Great Britain in its ancient tradition of fustians with an all linen warp (for strength) and a cotton weft (for fineness).
Fustians shall always be shorn with the long shear, so that it can be worn for at least two years.
Item iiij pair of fyne shets and ij pair of fustians for the said trussing bedde.
Item a fether bedde of fyne doune with a bolster and ij pillowes with shetis, fustians and pillowebeers as is appointed for the trussing bedde.
Cutting or cropping fustians by hand is a very laborious and delicate operation.
Throstle yarn is of a firm wiry quality, adapted to the warps of fustians and other strong stuffs, as well as to the manufacture of stockings and sewing thread.
The next process to which fustians are exposed is steeping in hot water, to take out the dressing paste.
It was the principal market for the fustians which were manufactured at Bolton, Leigh and the places adjacent.
These were of the same fabric as “the fustians of Naples,” and seem to have been so similar to the bombazines of succeeding years, that they may be considered as the commencement of the great staple of Norwich.
Philip and Mary passed an act to encourage the making “of russels, satins, satins-reverses, and fustians of Naples.
In the fourteenth century the fustians and dimities of Venice and Milan were much esteemed, especially in Northern Europe.
At Bruges and Ghent a large trade arose, especially in the fustians which were manufactured in Prussia and Germany, and were exported thence to Flanders and Spain.
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