The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's (sic) Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources (1873)
Practical Manufacturer, Yates, James, 1789-1871. Textrinum antiquorum · Boston : Printed for the author · leaf 399
—Terms for flax andtow—Cultivation of Flax in Palestine and Asia Minor—In Elis, Etruria, Cis-alpine Gaul, Campania, Spain—Flax of Germany, of the Atrebates, and of thoFranks—Progressive use of linen among the Greeks and Romans. The earliest mention of flax by any author occurs in the ac-count of… … ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE LINEN MANUFACTURE. 359 Besides the linen shirt the priests wore an upper garment oflinen, more especially when they officiated in the temples.This garment was probably of the exact form of a modernlinen sheet. The distinction between the shirt and the sheetworn over it, as…
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