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Tapsel (Tapsels, Tapseel, Topseile, Taffechella, Tafficila) was a coarse cotton and silk cloth. It was a woven variety with a striped pattern, and usually a blue color. The fabric dated back to the 18th century and was made in western India.

See also

• Sussi (cloth)

References

1. ^ Foster, William (1906). The English Factories in India. Clarendon Press. p. 62.
2. ^ Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (2013-09-17). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. p. 610. ISBN 978-1-60901-535-0.
3. 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. 361. ISBN 978-0-393-01703-8.
4. Wellington, Donald C. (2006). French East India Companies: A Historical Account and Record of Trade. Hamilton Books. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7618-3475-5.
5. Hardstaff, R. E. (2004). Human Cargo: And the Southwell Connection : a Record of a Slave Trading Voyage of the Eighteenth Century and the Links with People Living in the Southwell Area at that Time. Southwell and District Local History Society. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-9520503-2-2.

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