Bildeston became famous for blue broadcloth and buildings housing dyers, weavers, shearmen, spinners and clothiers were erected to form Chapel Street and Duke Street during the 15th and 16th centuries.

But Matthew said I must have a new coat, so Marilla bought a lovely piece of blue broadcloth, and it's being made by a real dressmaker over at Carmody.

He wore his three-cornered black hat athwartships; his coat was of bright blue broadcloth, trimmed with white, with gold anchor buttons and the long tails of the day.

With almost the same swing of the door a pale black-haired young man dressed unobtrusively in dark blue broadcloth entered the tavern.

He was wearing pajamas of blue broadcloth.

He wore soft half boots and long breeches of plain blue broadcloth beneath a comfortably loose-cut shirt much the same as wizard and scholar wore.

Lacking khaki broadcloth, puttees were fashioned from blue broadcloth.

The stockings, were of blue broadcloth, tied, or pinned on, which reached from the knees, into the mouth of the moccasins.

Lavenham prospered from the wool trade in the 15th and 16th century, with the town's blue broadcloth being an export of note.

In 1750 the Independent Companies of Rangers in Nova Scotia are described as wearing uniforms of blue broadcloth.