Identifier: textilemanufactu00prac (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Practical Manufacturer Yates, James, 1789-1871. Textrinum antiquorum
Subjects: Textile industry Textile fabrics, Ancient
Publisher: Boston : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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of the Oxus, and East of the Southernextremity of the Caspian Sea, and is probably the country, towhich Ctesias more especially referred. A still more recent au-thority is that of Moorcroft, who informs us, that Cloth is nowmade from the wool of the wild camels of Khoten in ChineseTartary, and that at Astrakhan a fine cloth is manufacturedfrom the wool of the camel foal of the first year*. * Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. i. p. 241, 242. It is customary in many parts of the East, as it was in Mexico in the time ofCortes (See Part Third, Chapter I.) to use the hair of various animals in em-broidering garments. The Candian women even embroider with their own hair,as well as that of animals, with which they make splendid representations offlowers, foliage, &c.: they also insert the skins of eels and serpents. According to M. de Busson, the negreeses of Senegal, embroider the skins ofvarious beasts, representing figures, flowers, and animals, in every variety ofcolor.
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PART THIRD, ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. CHAPTER I. GREAT ANTIQUITY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTUREIN INDIA —UNRIVALLED SKILL OF THE INDIANWEAVER. Superiority of Cotton for clothing, compared with linen, both in hot and cold cli-mates—Cotton characteristic of India—Account of Cotton by Herodotus,Ctesias, Theophrastus, Aristobulus, Nearchus, Pomponius Mela—Use of Cot-ton in India—Cotton known before silk and called Carpasus, Carpasum, Car-basum, &c.—Cotton awnings used by the Romans—Carbasus applied to linen—Last request of Tibullus—Muslin fillet of the vestal virgin—Linen sails, &c.called Carbasa—Valerius Flaccus introduces muslin among the elegancies inthe dress of a Phrygian from the river Rhyndacus-—Prudentiuss satire on prido—Apuleiuss testimony—Testimony of Sidonius Apollinaris, and Avienus—Pliny and Julius Pollux—Their testimony considered—Testimony of Tertullianand Philostratus—Of Martianus Capella—Cotton paper mentioned by

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