Bearskin. A shaggy kind of woolen cloth used for overcoats.
Belgrades, Silk. Boston News-Letter, Mar. 28, 1723.
Bendoarines, Striped. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
Bengal. Piece goods (apparently of different kinds) exported from Bengal in the seventeenth century. Bengal stripes, striped ginghams, originally from Bengal were afterwards manufactured at Paisley, Scotland. "Bengalls and Painted Callicoes used for Hanging of Rooms" (1680). There are two sorts, fine striped and plain (1696). Thin slight stuff, made of silk and hair, for women's apparel (1755).
Berlins, Double. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
Bezoarines, Tobine. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
Birds' Eyes. A fabric marked as with birds' eyes. A yellow birds-eye hood (1665). Olive colored birds' eye silk (1689).
Bombasine, Bombazeen, Bombase. A twilled or corded dress material, composed of silk and worsted; sometimes of cotton and worsted or worsted alone. In black, much used for mourning. A doublet of white bombasyne (1572). Pepys owned a black bombazin suit (1666).
Bream. 4 yards 4/. Essex Co. (Mass.) Probate (1674).
Bredaws, Silk. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.