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 399
yriac, and Arabic versions is KinaAivovy LXX. Linum, Jerome. In Isaiah xix. 9, according to King Jamess Translators andBishop Lowth, mention is made of those that work in fineflax and which was one of the chief employments of theEgyptians. According to Herodotus (ii. 37, 81.) the… … ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE LINEN MANUFACTURE. 359 Besides the linen shirt the priests wore an upper garment oflinen, more especially when they officiated in the temples.This garment was probably of the exact form of a modernlinen sheet. The distinction between the shirt and the sheetworn over it, as…
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