The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (1912)
Walton, Perry, 1865-1941 · Boston, Mass., J. S. Lawrence · leaf 58
re the first to import it in any quantityto Italy and Spain. Arrian, an Egyptian Greek of the sec-ond century a.d., in his Circumnavigation of the Ery-thraean Sea, is the first writer to mention it as an articleof commerce. At as early a date as the first century theArab traders were bringing… … THE COTTON PLANT (From F. H. Bowmans The Structure of the Cotton Fibre, courtesyof The Macmillan Company) The leaves, the bud, the flower, and the boll of cotton, showing the cottonripe in the boll ready for picking. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 37 The first cultivation of cotton in Europe was probablyby…
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