The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . simple. In the first years theywore clothes mostly made in Europe, but later the garmentswere also made here. Joen Skraddare was undoubtedly atailor,^^ as his nick-name indicates, but it is unlikely that hefound time to make all the clothes necessary and it is probablethat some of the colonists made their own wearing or gray wadmaP° and duffel,
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . simple. In the first years theywore clothes mostly made in Europe, but later the garmentswere also made here. Joen Skraddare was undoubtedly atailor,^^ as his nick-name indicates, but it is unlikely that hefound time to make all the clothes necessary and it is probablethat some of the colonists made their own wearing or gray wadmaP° and duffel, linen and frieze were themost common cloth, in fact almost the only kind shipped herefor the need of the settlers and from this their garments weremade. The retail cost of these materials from 1643 until 1654was as follows: 1. Frieze, four florins a yard. 2. Duffel, four florins a yard. 3. Linen cloth, one florin a yard. 4. Wadmal, twelve stivers a yard. 5. Hards-cloth, half a florin a yard. Shoes were shipped into the colony in fairly large numbers,but they were also made here.^^ The shoemaker mended old ^Stolt, Minnen, p. 25 ff.; Ace. B., 1643-48. See Rulla, 1644, appendix. * A kind of coarse woollen cloth. Cf. below and Interior of a dwelling from Jonkijping, Sweden, showing the splint-holder, the tablewith its wooden dishes, the fire-place and the clothes-hangers.
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