Tapsel (cloth)

Tapsel (Tapsels,[1] Tapseel, Topseile, Taffechella, Tafficila)[2] was a coarse cotton and silk cloth.[1][3] It was a woven variety with a striped pattern, and usually a blue color. The fabric dated back to the 18th century and was made in western India.[4][2][5]

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References

  1. ^ a b Foster, William (1906). The English Factories in India. Clarendon Press. p. 62.
  2. ^ a b Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (2013-09-17). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. p. 610. ISBN 978-1-60901-535-0.
  3. ^ Montgomery, Florence M. (1984). Textiles in America 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth. Internet Archive. New York; London : Norton. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-393-01703-8.
  4. ^ Wellington, Donald C. (2006). French East India Companies: A Historical Account and Record of Trade. Hamilton Books. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7618-3475-5.
  5. ^ Hardstaff, R. E. (2004). Human Cargo: And the Southwell Connection : a Record of a Slave Trading Voyage of the Eighteenth Century and the Links with People Living in the Southwell Area at that Time. Southwell and District Local History Society. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-9520503-2-2.


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