"16 au. entoilage à mouches à 11 l., 1761."—Comptes de Madame du Barry.
"7 au. de tulle pour hausser les manchettes, à 9 l., 63 l."—1770. Cptes. de Madame du Barry.
Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy.
In an old geography we find, "Tulle, Tuille three hundred years ago."
The word Tule or Tuly occurs in an English inventory of 1315, and again, in "Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight"; but in both cases the word seems not to indicate a stuff but rather a locality, probably Toulouse.—Francisque Michel.
In Skelton's Garland of Lawrell, we find, "A skein of tewly silk"; which his commentator, the Rev. A. Dyce, considers to be "dyed of a red colour."