ABSTRACT
When Edward Taylor imagined his poetic “apparell” and wrote of being “cloathed in Holy robes for glory,” it is hard to know if his mind’s eye saw English cloth, the work of a neighborhood weaver or his own wife’s toil. Certainly his homely metaphor implies a direct familiarity with the process of cloth production; one may assume he equated the laborious tasks associated with making textiles akin to the hard work of living a righteous life.
