The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Of linnen cloth.
The next thing to this, which our English House-wife must be skilfull is in the making of all sorts of linnen-cloth, whether it be of hempe or fl•xe, for from those two onely this is the most principall cloth deriued, and made both in this, and in other nations
