1. p[iece]s. Venetian Carpiting | 90½ at 8/— | 91.50 |
1. [ps Venetian Carpeting] | 77 @ $1.00 | 84.70 |
1. [ps] Red Flannel | 46 y[ar]ds @ 0.22½ | 10.35 |
1. [ps] White [Flannel] | 43 [yds] @ 4/— | 21.50 |
5. lbs cotton Yarn | 0.34 | 1.70 |
2. ps Plaid Gingham 60 | 60 [yds] @ 2/— | 15.00 |
1. [ps] | $8.00 | 8.00 |
1. Red Hkf [Handkerchief] | 2.25 | 2.25 |
1. [Red Thibet Hkf] | 0.80 | 0.80 |
2. Aprons | 8/— | 2.00 |
1. p[ai]r Super Buck[skin] Gloves | 0.96 | 1.92 |
1. [pr Super Buck] Mittens | 0.83 | 0.83 |
1 ps | 10 [yds] @ 14/— | 17.50 |
2. Water Ruggs | $5.00 | 10.00 |
1. [ps] Red Merino | 24⅛ [yds] @ 1.75 | 42.22 |
1 2 [ps] Sheeting | 61½ @ 0.14 | 8.61 |
1 [ps] Eagle [Merino] | 32¾ @ 0.21 | 6.86 |
1 [ps] White | 12 @ 4/ | 6.00 |
1 [ps] Plaid | 2¾ @ $2.25 | 6.18 |
1 [ps] Cotton Cloth | 31 @ 0.13½ | 4.19 |
1 [ps Cotton] | 31 @ 0.14½ | 4.59 |
2 [ps] | @ 18/— | 4.50 |
1. [ps] Red Callico | 30 @ 0.17 | 5.10 |
2 [ps] Callico | 61½ @ 0.11½ | 7.07 |
1 [ps] Furniture prints | 27¼ @ 0.14 | 3.82 |
1 [ps] Super Chints | 28 @ 0.27 | 7.56 |
1 [ps] Broad Cloth | 4 @ $5.00 | 20.00 |
1 [ps] White Silk Gloves | @ 5/— | 0.63 |
1/4 lb | $12.00 | 3.00 |
12. Boxes | 0.02 | 0.24 |
2. Doz Spool Thread | 4/ 6 | 1.13 |
3. Ribbon Aprons | $1.33 | 3.99 |
3 [Ribbon Aprons] | 9/ 4 | 3.51 |
Carried over | $407.25 |
Venetian Carpet, also called “striped Venetian,” referred to carpeting composed of colorful vertical stripes of wool with a weft of linen or hemp. While these carpets could be made on home looms, by the eighteenth century, they had begun to be produced in factories. (“Venetian Carpet,” in Montgomery, Textiles in America, 370; Philip Scranton, “Carpet Weaving and Rug Making,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2015, https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/carpet-weaving-and-rug-making-2/.)
Montgomery, Florence M. Textiles in America: 1650–1870. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984.