| 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 second general circumstance was the rise of virtually new trades because cheaper English re-exports of sugar, tobacco, and calicoes created fresh markets. |
| The calicoes in no.789 can be dated to the 1840s and 1850s based on motif and color. |
| Generally, calicoes are in two colours, one for the ground and the other for the figure or design. |
| It continued in textile design, particularly in whitework embroidery and some printed calicoes, into the mid-nineteenth century. |
| Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores imported from India. |
