_Ticklenburg._ Named for a town in Westphalia. A kind of coarse linen, generally very uneven, almost twice as strong as osnaburgs, much sold in England. About 1800 the name was always stamped on the cloth.
_Tiffany._ A kind of thin transparent silk; also a transparent gauze muslin, cobweb lawn. Shewed their naked arms through false sleeves of tiffany (1645). Black tiffany for mourning (1685).
_Tow Cloth._ A coarse cloth made from tow, i.e., the short fibres of flax combed out by the hetchell, and made into bags or very coarse clothing. Ropes also were made of tow.
_Tobine._ Probably a variant of tabby. With lustre shine in simple lutestring or tobine (1755). Lutestring tobines which commonly are striped with flowers in the warp and sometimes between the tobine stripes, with brocaded sprigs (1799). A stout twilled silk (1858).
_Turynetts._ Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
_Venetians._ A closely woven cloth having a fine twilled surface, used as a suiting or dress material.
_Villaranes._ Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1661).
_Vitry_, _Vittery_. A kind of light durable canvas. Vandolose [vandelas] or vitrie canvas the ell, 10s. (1612). Narrow vandales or vittry canvas (1640).
_Witney_, _Whitney_. A heavy, loose woolen cloth with a nap made up into blankets at Witney, Co. Oxford, England. Also, formerly, a cloth or coating made there. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn (1716). Fine Whitneys at 53 s. a yard, coarse Whitneys at 28 s. (1737).
In the Inventory of the Estate of Henry Landis of Boston, shopkeeper, taken Dec. 17, 1651, the following fabrics are listed, viz.:
Black Turky tamet, Green Italiano Turkie mohaire Say Green English Tamett Red Calico Cotton cloth Red Serge Kersey Cheny Yellow cotton Double Cheny Linsie woolsey Red satinesco English mohaire Olive serge Mixed Italiano Holland Grey ditto Tufted Holland Broadcloth Fine Holland Green cotton cloth Nuns Holland Course Yorkshire Kersey Broad dowlas Tamy Cheny Dowlas Padway serge Broad lining Adretto Lockrum Hair Camelion White Calico Castelano 1 pr dimity drawers Herico Italiano 1 pr girls bodys White serge Addevetto Perpetuano 2 childs waistcoats at 9 d. Best ditto 9 tawney bonnets at 16 d. Mixed serge 46 pr ear wiers at 4 d. Cloth 17 calico neck cloths at 12 d. Kersey 2 gro tin buttons at 2/6. Italiano 9 yds silk galoon at 2-1/2 d. Sad hair coloured Italiano Breeches bottons Taunton serge Silk breast buttons Mixed stuff Hair buttons Green mixed serge Great silk buttons Herico Kersey A great variety of silk and bone lace Green Tamy 1 black satin cap, 3/.