“The earliest known cotton textiles are from the Indus Valley, and for centuries Indian calicos and muslins were widely traded luxury goods.”

“Fabrics varied, and included calendared or glazed fabrics of wool, plain or floral printed calicos and muslins, and glazed chintz monochrome or polychrome prints.”

“It continued in textile design, particularly in whitework embroidery and some printed calicoes, into the mid-nineteenth century.”

“From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc.”

“Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores imported from India.”