Sannas
Sannas (Sannoes, Sanna,[1] Sannah,[2] Sannoe, Sanoe[3]) was a cotton cloth from the 17th century. This fabric was plain weave cotton, which was produced in the Indian state of Orissa. After 1640, huge quantities of Sannas were exported to Europe.[4] Sannas, Cassas, and Bafta were among the Indian textiles exported for shirting and sheeting uses.[5] Sanna was mostly white or blue in colour.[1]
Bengal's description of piece goods for the Cape market includes Sannoes in the list along with Nainsook, and different variations of Bafta such as ''Chittabully Baftaes, and Callapatty Baftaes''.[6]
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- ^ a b Tortora, Phyllis G.; Johnson, Ingrid (2013-09-17). The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles. A&C Black. p. 528. ISBN 978-1-60901-535-0.
- ^ Sangar, Pramod (1993). Growth of the English Trade Under the Mughals. ABS Publications. pp. xv. ISBN 978-81-7072-044-7.
- ^ India, National Archives of (1949). Fort William-India House Correspondence and Other Contemporary Papers Relating Thereto. Manager of Publications. p. 1146.
- ^ Journal of Indian Textile History. Calico Museum of Textiles. 1955. p. 71.
- ^ 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. 264. ISBN 978-0-393-01703-8.
- ^ Milburn, William (1813). Oriental Commerce: Containing a Geographical Description of the Principal Places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, with Their Produce, Manufactures, and Trade, Including the Coasting Or Country Trade from Port to Port :also the Rise and Progress of the Trade of the Various European Nations with the Eastern World, Particularly that of the English East India Company from the Discovery of the Passage Round the Cape of Good Hope to the Present Period :with an Account of the Company's Establishments, Revenues, Debts, Assets, and C. at Home and Abroad [...]. author and published. p. 46.