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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 475

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r, II. x. 265. Eustathius, in his commentary on this passage, says, thatthe most ancient Greeks always wore felt in their helmets, but that those of morerecent times, regarding this use of felt as peculiar to Ulysses, persuaded the paint-ers to exhibit him in a skull-cap, and that this was first… … HafelX.

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