Dowlas

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Dowlas was a strong coarse linen cloth of the 16th and 17th centuries, and initially, it was manufactured in Brittany.[1] In the 18th century the fabric was also produced in England and Scotland. Dowlas was identical to sailcloth.[2] The cloth was also imitated in cotton for the same use.[3]

The word is spelled in many different ways, but dowlas is the common way of spelling adopted in factories, and it appears in the same form in Shakespeare's Henry IV, part 1, Act III scene 3. The dowlas of the early twentieth century was a good, strong and closely woven linen fabric.[4]

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