Sentence examples for british cloth from inspiring English sources

But last winter, he picked out a pricey British cloth, a blue woolen, and paid $795 for it.

Funny stuff — but I can't afford to subscribe, having bankrupted myself buying Portuguese wine and antique British cloth and all that.

The book belonged to Peter Collinson, a British cloth merchant and naturalist who was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin's and a major importer of American plants.

The skill of English and Scottish finishers was widely recognized, and much British cloth owed its high reputation to the expertise of the finisher.

At least by the 3rd century some landowners were finding great profit in wool; Diocletian's price edict (ad 301) shows that at least two British cloth products had won an empire-wide reputation.

Ricardo's own example of Portuguese wine and British cloth highlights two of the weaknesses of his theory: (1) There is a societal cost to specialization and narrowing of economic activity; (2) The economic and social benefits and costs of economic activity go way beyond the manufacturing cost of the products themselves.

Other pieces take their cues from many of the details in the archive room, with long double-breasted coats in rare British cloths lined with hints of regimental braiding.

We use all British fabric, a good middleweight oxford cloth.

The Crombie firm still makes its coats in Britain from British-made cloth, and long may it continue.

The sample garments weren't all available in my size, but this couldn't mask the quality of the construction and fit and the luxurious feel of the British-made cloths.

"M&S is the world's biggest retail buyer of British wool and cloth," says Mark Yates, M&S head of innovation and quality for menswear.