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Perpetuana was a woollen fabric made and used in early modern England and elsewhere for clothing and furnishings including bed hangings. It was lighter than broadcloth and resembled serge, some varieties had a glossy finish.^[1] The name seems to advertise its long-lasting qualities.^[2] A fabric called "sempiternum" or "sempiterna" for the same reason was perhaps a similar weave.^[3] Like another English-made fabric "Penniston", perpetuana was used for the clothing of slaves in Jamaica and the Caribbean.^[4]^[5]

^ Eric Kerridge, Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England (Manchester, 1985), p. 118.
^ M. Channing Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Oxford, 1936), pp. 83-4.
^ Jane Whittle & Elizabeth Griffiths, Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange (Oxford, 2012), p. 120.
^ Steeve O. Buckridge, African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender (Bloomsbury, 2016), p. 136.
^ 'Only surviving fragment of 'slave' cloth found in Derbyshire record office', Guardian, 2 April 2023

[1] Eric Kerridge, Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England (Manchester, 1985), p. 118.

[2] M. Channing Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Oxford, 1936), pp. 83-4.

[3] Jane Whittle & Elizabeth Griffiths, Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange (Oxford, 2012), p. 120.

[4] Steeve O. Buckridge, African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender (Bloomsbury, 2016), p. 136.

[5] 'Only surviving fragment of 'slave' cloth found in Derbyshire record office', Guardian, 2 April 2023

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