Record 20 from 1732
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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