CALLICO, in commerce, a kind of linen manufacture, made of cotton, chiefly in the East Indies, some of which are painted with various flowers of different colours; and others that are never dyed, having a stripe of gold and silver quite through the piece; and at each end they fix a tiffue of gold, silver, and silk, intermixed with flowers. This manufacture is brought hither by the East-India company, and is re-exported by merchants to other parts of Europe. The general wear of stained or printed India calicoes in this nation having become a general grievance, and occasioning unspeakable distress upon our own manufacturers, they were prohibited by stat. 7 Geo. I. cap. vii.