The Textile History of Whitby 1700-1914 Apr. 2015 | Page 17

INDEX quilts, eider-down, 105 quilts, embroidered, 316 quilts, patchwork, 329, 384 quilts, wadded, 62-63 plain weaves, 154-155, 315, 322, 349, 355 plaiting, 10, 64, 257, 348 plans, 18, 20, 20, 23, 24, 143, 163, 212 pleating/pleats, 193, 213, 235, 244, 248, 261-262, 264, 267, 295, 307, 325, 347, 361-366 pockets, 48, 81, 175-176, 228, 326-327 pointed bodice/waist, 213, 250, 363-364, 366 politics, 67, 133 Poll Tax, 12 Poor Law Union, 20 Poor Law valuation [1837], 37, 162, 164, 186, 190, 209, 212, 236, 287, 305-306 poor/poorest, the, 24, 32, 34-35, 37, 55, 67-68, 83, 134-135, 268, 314, 329-333 poor, collecting clothes for, 98 Port Books, 14 porters, 229 portraits, 15, 18-19, 22, 25-26, 27, 28, 32, 77, 187, 203-204, 266, 271, 275, 279 ports, 59, 144-146, 163-164, 169, 171-172, 174, 179 post, by, 97, 120, 122, 183, 185 postal orders, 123 postcards, 51, 122, 226 postman’s uniform etc, 204, 230 potash, 152, 293 poverty, 17, 67-68, 187, 331 powder puffs, 141 power/power-driven looms, 54, 58, 61, 126, 153, 159 pre-industrial, 330 Pre-Raphaelites, 311 premiums, 130, 155, 174 pressing, 127, 202 price-