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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4193026, member: 2844"]It could be difficult to differentiate between French or English, since the silk weavers in England at the time were nearly all French Huguenots who settled mostly in Spitalfields, but not just there.</p><p>There is a Huguenot Museum where you could ask, they also have silk samples they could compare it with:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://huguenotmuseum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://huguenotmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow">https://huguenotmuseum.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is also this site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4193026, member: 2844"]It could be difficult to differentiate between French or English, since the silk weavers in England at the time were nearly all French Huguenots who settled mostly in Spitalfields, but not just there. There is a Huguenot Museum where you could ask, they also have silk samples they could compare it with: [URL]https://huguenotmuseum.org/[/URL] There is also this site: [URL]http://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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