Greensleeves is given two different kinds of petticoats
I bought thee peticotes of the best,
the cloth so fine as might be:
The word cloth was used for wool at this time.
Constance Mackenzie has begun to make red woollen petticoats.
Thy peticote of Sendall right:
Sendal is a fine silk, described by Francis Thynne in 1598 as
“a sylke stuffe. ...a thynne stuff lyke cypres; but yet was a thynne stuff lyke sarcenet,
and of a raw kynde of sylke or sarcenet, but coarser and narrower"
Serena Dyer will make this silk petticoat