This twill weave Norwich good is fine and strong of a lovely blue. A very good weight for women’s petticoats, jackets, and gowns. Men’s waistcoats coats and breeches. For example advertised in The New York Journal of 1774, “absented from her master, a Scotch indented servant girl . . . had on . . . a blue worsted skirt”. As cited in Wives, Slaves, and Servant Girls. Try blue 80/3 linen thread for hand sewing and navy blue silk quilter’s thread for buttonholes.
