Record 20 from 1732

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Summary

This record provides information on Allada ‘Withdaw’ clothes being exported to Barbados.

Record Excerpt

Their women are most employ'd in making Whidaw cloths, mats, baskets, canchy, pitto and in planting and fowing their corn, yams, potatos etc. The Whidaw cloth is about two yards long, and about a quarter of a yard broad, three such being commonly joyn'd together. It is of divers colours, but generally blue and white. For a pound of leaf tobacco, be it never so rotten and bad we could buy one of these cloths; which would yield a crown in Barbadoes; also one for eight knives, value prime cost eighteen pence. To make these cloths, especially the blue streaks, they unravel most of the sayes and perpetuanoes we sell them.

Source: See John Thornton, Africans in Africa, pp.52-53 quoting John Phillips 'A journal of the voyage in the Hannibal of Lonodn, ann. 1693, 1694', in A Collection of Voyages and travels (London, 1732)

Item Metadata

Primary Textile Types: Other

Secondary Textile Types: No secondary textile types available.

Primary Subjects: No primary subjects available.

Secondary Subjects: No secondary subjects available.

Keywords: Weavers, Colour--Textiles, Textile Terminology, Design, Production Centers

Circulation: Trade & Distribution

Source type: Primary Source: Printed - Other

Year: 1732

Reference: See John Thornton, Africans in Africa, pp.52-53 quoting John Phillips 'A journal of the voyage in the Hannibal of Lonodn, ann. 1693, 1694', in A Collection of Voyages and travels (London, 1732)

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