jan 1, 1485 - tapet

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A piece of figured cloth which could serve as a hanging, a carpet or a table-cover. 1287-8 <i>et in tapetis et sotularibus et pelliciis emptis ad opus canonicorum xxixs ijd</i>, Bolton Priory (YRS154/38); 1342 <i>lego Roberto Coltebay unum novum tapetum</i>, York (SS4/5); 1391 <i>tribus cortinis et tribus tapetis de blodio</i>, Harewood (SS4/150); 1485 <i>vj cusshyns de tappett xxd</i>, Clotherholme (SS64/368). There was a guild of tapiters in York in the fourteenth century, possibly from <i>c</i>.1375 when no fewer than ten men were enrolled as freemen, e.g. 1375 <i>Thomas de Coppegrave, tapetter</i> (SS96/72). Their undated ordinances include several of those names (SS120/84).

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