The final necessity was linen. All the white linen for priestly vestments and altar "clothing" appears to have been imported, as were other textiles used in Florida: Oriental silks, English woolens, Mexican wool blankets, Campeche cottons, and linens from Holland and Brittany. An indigenous variety of cotton existed and for a quarter of a century plans were discussed to bring in either 24 families of native weavers and spinners from Campeche or 12 families from Tlaxcala to teach the Florida Indians how to weave cotton cloth, but the Mexican artisans never came (Hita Salazar, 1675; Marquez Cabrera, 1680b; 1683; Zuniga y Cerda, 1701e). (Bushnell SS)