| The calicoes in no.789 can be dated to the 1840s and 1850s based on motif and color. |
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| It continued in textile design, particularly in whitework embroidery and some printed calicoes, into the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc. |
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| Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores imported from India. |
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| The sixty-second spot stars an assortment of kittens — tabbies, calicoes, Siamese, and a dozen other breeds — in a variety of adorable vignettes. |
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| 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. |
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| They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market. |
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| The second general circumstance was the rise of virtually new trades because cheaper English re-exports of sugar, tobacco, and calicoes created fresh markets. |
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| Generally, calicoes are in two colours, one for the ground and the other for the figure or design. |
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| Printed calicoes were generally used for hangings and bedcovers, as well as for dresses in England, but in India the material was generally used only for garments. |
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| In 1700 an Act of Parliament was passed to prevent the importation of dyed or printed calicoes from India, China or Persia. |
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| Calico originated in Calicut, India, by the 11th century, if not earlier, and in the 17th and 18th centuries calicoes were an important commodity traded between India and Europe. |
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