Rock, Daniel, 1799-1871, Great Britain. Education Dept · New York : Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong · leaf 57
e opere Saraceno it is not improbable thatsome at least of those textiles were so called from havino-Arabic characters woven on them. Such, too, were the letterson the red pall figured with elephants and a bird, belonging inthe fourteenth century to the cathedral at Exeter. Somewhatlater, our trade… … Silk damask (Sicilian) with imitated Arabic letters. TEXTILES. 47 The weaving of letters in textiles is neither a Moorish norSaracenic invention; ages before, the ancient Parthians used todo so, as we learn from Pliny: Parthi literas vestibus intexunt.A curious illustration of the frequent use of…
Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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