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The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances : including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving : also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts : with appendices on Pliny's Natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, &c., deduced from copious and authentic sources (1845)

Gilroy, Clinton G · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 434

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es in Silk. The Green indicates the countries, all low and bordering onrivers, in which the cloth manufactured was chiefly Linen. The Brown is designed to show the cultivation of Hemp inthe low country to the North of the Euxine Sea, and probablyin other places, North of the Red division, which… … APPENDICES, APPENDIX A. ON PLINYS NATURAL HISTORY. Sheep and wool—Price of wool in Plinys time—Varieties of wool and where pro-duced—Coarse wool used for the manufacture of carpets—Woollen cloth ofEgypt—Embroidery—Felting—Manner of cleansing—Distaff of Tanaquil—Varro—Tunic—Toga—Undulate or waved…

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