Haberdashery and Textile
Haberdashers were initially peddlers, thus sellers of small items such as needles and buttons. The word is thought to have no connection with an Old Norse word akin to the Icelandic haprtask, which means peddlers' wares or the sack in which the peddler carried them. If that had been the case, a haberdasher (in its hypothetical Scandinavian meaning) would be very close to a mercer (French).
Since the word has no recorded use in Scandinavia, it is most likely derived from the Anglo-Norman hapertas, meaning small ware. A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding".
Saint Louis IX, King of France 1226–70, is the patron saint of French haberdashers. In Belgium and elsewhere in Continental Europe, Saint Nicholas remains their patron saint, while Saint Catherine was adopted by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in the City of London.
A textile or cloth is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread). Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or felting.
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'Clarks Mile End Spool Cotton' £6.99
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'Clarks Spool Cotton' in 1800's £6.99
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'Elna Sewing Machine Poster. Switzerland' in 1946 £6.99
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'Female - Drapery Studies, Studies of female Drapery seen from the back' by Edward Burne-Jones in 1867-69 £6.99
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'Green Summer - Drapery Study for the Central Figure' by Edward Burne-Jones in 1863-64 £6.99
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'Henri Meunier Untitled (Ameublement Gouthier)' in 1896 £6.99
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'Knitting Woman in Pink Dress, detail' by Édouard Vuillard in 1900-05 £6.99
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'Linge Monopole - Maxime Faivret' in 1900 £6.99
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'Mile End Cotton' £6.99
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'Mother Hubbard' by Walter Crane in 1800's £6.99
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'The Carpet Merchant, detail' by Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1887 £6.99
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'The Emperor's New Clothes' from 'Stories by Hans Christian Andersen' by Edmund Dulac in 1911 £6.99
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'The Light-running Whitehill Sewing Machine' £6.99
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'The Light-running Whitehill Sewing Machine' £6.99
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'The sheep-shearer, after Millet' by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 £6.99
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'The White Sewing Machine' £6.99
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'Woman sewing, detail' by Vincent van Gogh in 1885 £6.99
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'A Weaver's Cottage, detail' by Vincent van Gogh in 1884 £6.99
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'Bobbin winder'' by Vincent van Gogh in 1885 £6.99
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'Deux ouvrières dans l'atelier de couture [Two Seamstresses in the Workroom]' by Édouard Vuillard in 1893 £6.99
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'Madame Vuillard Sewing, detail' by Édouard Vuillard in 1920 £6.99
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'The Weaver' by Vincent van Gogh in 1884 £6.99
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'Winter - Study of Flying Drapery, detail' by Edward Burne-Jones in 1866-67 £5.99