The second general circumstance was the rise of virtually new trades because cheaper English re-exports of sugar, tobacco, and calicoes created fresh markets. |
From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc. |
They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market. |
They were none of the slimsy, composition-filled, aniline-dyed calicoes of to-day. |
Such a scenario would place the quiltmaker in the vicinity of mills from which she acquired the checks, plaids, twills, glazed cottons and calicoes to make her quilts. |
The sixty-second spot stars an assortment of kittens — tabbies, calicoes, Siamese, and a dozen other breeds — in a variety of adorable vignettes. |