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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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—Terms for flax andtow—Cultivation of Flax in Palestine and Asia Minor—In Elis, Etruria, Cis-alpine Gaul, Campania, Spain—Flax of Germany, of the Atrebates, and of thoFranks—Progressive use of linen among the Greeks and Romans. The earliest mention of flax by any author occurs in the ac-count of the plague of hail, which devastated Lower Egypt,Ex. ix. 31. The Hebrew term for flax in this and variousother passages of the old Testament is nmua ; the correspond-ing word in the Chaldee, Syriac, 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 Egyptiansuniversally wore linen shirts, which were fringed at the bottom.The fringe consisted of the thrums, or ends of the webs.Thrums used for this purpose may be seen in the cloths whichare found in Egyptian mummies.
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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 well as the reason why linen was used for allsacred purposes, is clearly expressed in the two following pas-sages from Apuleius and Jerome. Etiamne cuiquam mirum videri potest, cui sit ulla memoria religionis, hominemtot mysteriis Deum conseium, quaedam sacrorum crepundia domi adversare, atqueea lineo texto involvere, quod purissimum est rebus divinis velamentum? Quippelana, segnissimi corporis excrementum, pecori detracta, jam hide Orphei et Pyth-agoras scitis, profanus vestitus est. Sed enim mundissima lini seges, inter optimasfruges terra exorta, non mode indutui et amictui sanctissimis JEgyptiorum sacer-dotibus, sed opertui quoque in rebus sacris usurpatur. Apuleii Apolog. p. 64. ed. Pricc

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