I'd bet that Scot cloth was a plaid, but it could be a linen, similar to
Irish linen.
I agree that ferret was a silk ribbon and/or a narrow woolen tape.
Usually silk, though.
Dow lace perplexes me, since dowlas was defined as "A coarse kind of
linen" in 1797.
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