Obs. Some fabric anciently used for canopies, curtains and linings. The explanation in quot. 1882 does not suit quot. 1295, which indicates a linen material.
[1295. Du Cange, s.v., Visitatio Thesaurariæ S. Pauli Lond. … linea una Carda Indici coloris … similiter Carda Inda cum zona de filo … Unum velum Quadragesimale de Carde croceo et Indico.
1396. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 124. In card emp. pro coopertorio Corporis Xpi. in die Corporis Xpi. 2s.
1401. Will of Furneux (Somerset Ho.). Gounam de nigro Burneto dupplicat cum Carde.]
1426. E. E. Wills (1882), 76. A blewe bedde of Tapecery … & a selour with curteyns of carde.
[1882. Beck, Draper’s Dict., Carda, Carduus, an inferior silk, supposed to have been made of the coarse outer filaments of cocoons, probably used for linings. Fourpence an ell was paid in 1278 for 119 ells of carda, for thirty-four surcoats to be used in a tournament.]
Carde, perhaps = CARDER. But cf. CAIRD, CARD sb.2 2 c.
1572. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford, 341. No fuller … may kepe … in their houses journeymen, otherwise called cardes.
