Abstract
C LOTH was the most material item of material culture in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Laborand resource-intensive, and therefore costly to make, fabrics and clothing represented the largest expenditure on household goods for most families.1 An understanding of the place of textiles in early America is fundamental to current historiographical debates over rural household self-sufficiency, the transition to capitalism, and the emergence of a consumer culture. Yet, despite the vast literature that these issues have generated and despite a growing interest in the material culture of the period, historians have neglected this essential commodity.2
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