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 353
of the Oxus, and East of the Southernextremity of the Caspian Sea, and is probably the country, towhich Ctesias more especially referred. A still more recent au-thority is that of Moorcroft, who informs us, that Cloth is nowmade from the wool of the wild camels of Khoten in ChineseTartary, and that… … PART THIRD, ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. CHAPTER I. GREAT ANTIQUITY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTUREIN INDIA —UNRIVALLED SKILL OF THE INDIANWEAVER. Superiority of Cotton for clothing, compared with linen, both in hot and cold cli-mates—Cotton characteristic of India—Account of Cotton by…
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