Bengal Stripes

Bengal Stripes
BENGAL STRIPES
All-cotton cloth, matting weave, white and blue stripes, usually bleached yarns, and the cloth soft-finished : 34-in. to 36-in. wide, and made up in 10 or 12 yard ends : 60-ends, 36 picks, 24's white, 4-ends of 20's opal blue per inch, 14's or 16's weft. So called from Bengal, where the cloth was first manufactured. They were first made in Great Britain at Paisley.

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