Trading Cloth, see Duffell.
Turynetts. Boston Gazette, Aug. 22, 1757.
Venetians. A closely woven cloth having a fine twilled surface, used as a suiting or dress material.
Villaranes. Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records (1661).
Vitry, Vittery. A kind of light durable canvas. Vandolose [vandelas] or vitrie canvas the ell, 10s. (1612). Narrow vandales or vittry canvas (1640).
Water Paragon, see Paragon.
Witney, Whitney. A heavy, loose woolen cloth with a nap made up into blankets at Witney, Co. Oxford, England. Also, formerly, a cloth or coating made there. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn (1716). Fine Whitneys at 53 s. a yard, coarse Whitneys at 28 s. (1737).
In the Inventory of the Estate of Henry Landis of Boston, shopkeeper, taken Dec. 17, 1651, the following fabrics are listed, viz.:
| Black Turky tamet, | Green Italiano |
| Turkie mohaire | Say |
| Green English Tamett | Red Calico |
| Cotton cloth | Red Serge |
| Kersey | Cheny |
| Yellow cotton | Double Cheny |
| Linsie woolsey | Red satinesco |
| English mohaire | Olive serge |
| Mixed Italiano | Holland |
| Grey ditto | Tufted Holland |
| Broadcloth | Fine Holland |
| Green cotton cloth | Nuns Holland |
| Course Yorkshire Kersey | Broad dowlas |
| Tamy Cheny | Dowlas |
| Padway serge | Broad lining |
| Adretto | Lockrum |
| Hair Camelion | White Calico |
| Castelano | 1 pr dimity drawers |
| Herico Italiano | 1 pr girls bodys |
| White serge | Addevetto |
| Perpetuano | 2 childs waistcoats at 9 d. |
| Best ditto | 9 tawney bonnets at 16 d. |
| Mixed serge | 46 pr ear wiers at 4 d. |
| Cloth | 17 calico neck cloths at 12 d. |
| Kersey | 2 gro tin buttons at 2/6. |
| Italiano | 9 yds silk galoon at 2½ d. |
| Sad hair coloured Italiano | Breeches bottons |
| Taunton serge | Silk breast buttons |
| Mixed stuff | Hair buttons |
| Green mixed serge | Great silk buttons |
| Herico Kersey | A great variety of silk and bone lace |
| Green Tamy | 1 black satin cap, 3/. |
—Suffolk Co. Probate Records, Vol. II, p. 127.