Sentence examples for local cloth from inspiring English sources

The Black Death raised the price of labour and boosted trade, for English sheep grew longer fleeces as they grazed fields newly left fallow, and local cloth improved.

The bank, he said, was founded by the Zyli family, local cloth merchants in a town long noted more for its textiles than finance, though the name Wegelin came from a son-in-law, the scion of a family that brought forth doctors and theologians but few bankers, yet who entered the bank in the 19th century.

Known in Italian as Il Poverello, or the Poor One, St Francis was the son of a wealthy local cloth merchant who scandalised his family when he reached the age of 25 by dumping his expensive clothing and living in sackcloth, ministering to the poor for the rest of his life.

This was built 1526 1529 by a local cloth merchant, John Lane.

John Lane was one of the best known local cloth merchants (see Lane's Aisle in the section on St Andrew's church below).

Wrapping up the whole body of a newborn with a large piece of local cloth, tinga, or putting woolen caps or socks onto the baby is done to protect the child from the perceived risks of the outside world during this vulnerable period.

He raced out to a local fabric store and returned an hour later with several yards of black cloth.

Those who remain scrape by selling hand-woven cloth, local alcohol or fish.

Each of its nine rooms is on a different theme – using local artists, African cloth, and Indian and Malay artefacts.

The bronze doors were paid for by the local guild of cloth importers, who could afford such grand gestures because they extracted handsome rents by preventing competition from other importers.

To colour the cloth, local cotton is dipped in a brew of indigo twigs, ash and potassium, and shaken out every couple of minutes to help the dye soak in.