Sinchaw, or Synchaw, was a silk type described in an early 19th century list of prices as “a firm thick even Kind of Goods”. Sinchaw was among the varieties of Chinese silk imported into the United States during the eighteenth century. The length of a piece was around 30 yards with a variance of one yard.
References
- ^ Montgomery, Florence M. (1984). Textiles in America 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth. Internet Archive. New York; London : Norton. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-393-01703-8.
- Carpenter, Francis Ross (1976). The Old China Trade: Americans in Canton, 1784-1843. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-698-30610-3.
- Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (2013-09-17). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. pp. 564language=en. ISBN 978-1-60901-535-0.
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