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Updated: August 22, 2024
Cloth of gold, diaper, baldekin, velvet, tissue, samite, satin, tartaryn, samitelle, sarcenet, taffata, sindon, cendall, say all of them varieties of silken stuffs ribbons of silk, satin, velvet, silver, and gold, were heaped together in brilliant and bewildering confusion of beautiful colours. Lady Foljambe, Mrs Margaret, Marabel, and Agatha, were all looking on.
Cendall was a very fine, thin silk fit for summer wear, resembling what is now called foulard; say was the coarsest and cheapest sort of silk, and was used for upholstery as well as clothing. "I have a full fair bean-flower cendall, Dame, one shilling the ell; and a good sop-in-wine say at twopence."
"No," said Lady Foljambe; "I would have white." "Forty-five shillings the piece, Dame." "Hast no cheaper?" "Not in white, Dame." "Well! lay it aside; likewise three ells of the red. I would have moreover a cendall of bean-flower colour, and a piece or twain of say murrey or sop-in-wine."
The mercer, as he spoke, held up the piece of say, of a nondescript colour, not unlike what is now termed crushed strawberry. "That shall serve for the chamberers," said Lady Foljambe; "but the cendall is for myself; I would have it good." "Dame, it is principal; you shall not see better." "Good. Measure me off six ells of the cendall, and nine of the say.
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