Sinchaw

{{Short description|A type of Chinese silk imported in the U.S. in the 18th century}}

Sinchaw, or Synchaw, was a silk type described in an early 19th century list of prices as “a firm thick even Kind of Goods”.{{Cite book|last=Montgomery|first=Florence M.|url=http://archive.org/details/textilesinameric00mont|title=Textiles in America 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth|date=1984|publisher=New York; London : Norton|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-393-01703-8|pages=349}} Sinchaw was among the varieties of Chinese silk imported into the United States during the eighteenth century.{{Cite book|last=Carpenter|first=Francis Ross|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OWFAAAAIAAJ&q=Synchaw+silk|title=The Old China Trade: Americans in Canton, 1784-1843|date=1976|publisher=Coward, McCann & Geoghegan|isbn=978-0-698-30610-3|pages=48|language=en}} The length of a piece was around 30 yards with a variance of one yard.{{Cite book|last1=Tortora|first1=Phyllis G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYfAQAAQBAJ&q=Synchaw&pg=PA564|title=The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles|last2=Johnson|first2=Ingrid|date=2013-09-17|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-60901-535-0|pages=564language=en}}