This section is from the "A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods" book, by George S. Cole. Also available from Amazon: A complete dictionary of dry goods and history of silk, cotton, linen, wool and other fibrous substances,: Including a full explanation of the modern processes ... together with various useful tables.
Town-Made. A term referring to that class of fabric gloves or hosiery made by cutting out the various portions from a pattern and sewing them together with seams, in contradistinction to frame-made and full regular made. [See Gloves, Hosiery]
 
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