Saye

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For the British peerage title, see Baron Saye and Sele


Saye is a woollen cloth woven in the west and south of England in and around the 15th and 16th centuries. A suburb of Bristol, England is called Sea Mills, this was originally Saye Mills.

Samuel Pepys on June 21, 1661, [1]recorded purchasing "green Say ... for curtains in my parler".

A related sort of cloth was [2]serica, which was finer, since it also contained silk.

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