SAYE
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- for the town in Mali see Saye, MaliSaye, MaliSaye is a village and seat of the commune of San in the Cercle of Macina in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali.-References:...
Saye is a wool
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
len cloth woven in the west and south of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in and around the 15th and 16th centuries. A suburb of Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, England is called Sea Mills
Sea Mills, Bristol
Sea Mills is a suburb of the English port city of Bristol. It is situated some 3.5 miles north-west of the city centre, towards the seaward end of the Avon Gorge. Nearby suburbs are Shirehampton, Sneyd Park, Combe Dingle and Stoke Bishop...
, this was originally Saye Mills.
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
on June 21, 1661, s:Diary of Samuel Pepys/1661/Junerecorded purchasing "green Say ... for curtains in my parler".
A related sort of cloth was http://www.renaissancewoman.net/realmofvenus/seamstress/fabricglossary.htm serica, which was finer, since it also contained silk.