SATIN. DAMASK. SARSNET. TARTARYN. RIBAND. FRINGE. 573 



Oxford at js., in 1507 in Cambridge at 6s. 8d., in 1518 in 

 Oxford at 6s. 6\d., and in 1530 at 6s. In 1526 white damask 

 is 7y. Sd. at Oxford, red $s., while 'damask cloth of gold 

 wrought with imagery' is bought, twenty-one yards, at 13^. ^d. 

 the yard. It is not improbable that damask was, like the linen 

 fabric, a material with a diapered pattern. 



There are a few entries of sarsnet. In 1464 crimson costs 

 4s. 4d., white and black $s. a yard. In 1532 the monks of 

 Durham pay 4.$-. a yard for the article, in 1553 white is bought 

 at 5^. Sd., blue, red, and black at 4s. 4^., and in 1565 an ell is 

 bought by the city of Oxford for 4^-. 6d. 



Another and cheaper kind of silk stuff is called tartaryn. 

 This is bought at 35-. ^d. in 1427 ; at lod. in 1434, when it is 

 employed as lining to the state hat of the Norwich mayor ; at 

 2s. Sd. and 2s. 4d. in 1441, when it forms part of Lord Crom- 

 well's purchases, and is white, blue, red, and green ; and at 2 s. 4d. 

 and 3^. in 1445, wnen another kind called double is bought 

 at 4s. 



Other kinds are, rosett in 1462, at $s. the yard, green byse 

 (which I imagine to be silk), at 4^. in 1525, and taffeta in 1553 

 at los. 4d. and IDS. Black a Lyre is probably silk: it costs 

 2s. 6d. in 1439 ; 6s. Sd., 6s., and 4^-. in 1466 ; 4^-. $d. in 1467. 

 I also find sericum blodium in Norwich, 1469, at is., which is 

 probably a narrow silk riband ; and baudekyn in 1526 at i2s. 

 the yard. 



Riband and fringe are often bought by the ounce. Six 

 entries of ribbon by the ounce give a little less than nd. 

 In 1518 ribbon is bought by the pound at i$s. ^d., and 

 apparently by the pound avoirdupois. In 1450 ribbon silk 

 costs is. lod. the ounce; in 1508 round silk \\\d. the 

 ounce. Between 1445 and J 543 si ^ fringe is is. i^d. the 

 ounce. In 1553 tnat purchased for the funeral of Edward VI 

 costs 35. and 2s. the ounce. In 1445 'Hemlace and Fris- 

 lace' cost is. 6d. the ounce; and in 1443 an article 

 called fringe and lace is bought at is. 6d. Ribbon for 

 copes is 2s. $\d. the yard in 1509, and an ell of silk lace in 



