hawls. Marco Polo
tells of beautiful camelots manufactured from the hair
of camels; and of the Egyptian coarse and very fine
fabrics woven of the same materials.

[139] "Le Chevalier a Deux Epees" (quoted by Dr. Rock),
and Lady Wilton, "Art of Needlework," p. 128.

[140] See p. 359, _post_, for Boadicea's dress.

[141] See Mr. Villiers Stuart's "Funeral Tent of an
Egyptian Queen."

[142] The Moors in Spain excelled in leather-work and
embroidery upon it; and Marco Polo describes the
beautiful productions of the province of Guzerat, of
leather inlaid and embroidered with gold and silver
wire. Yule's "Marco Polo," p. 383.

[143] See chapter on Stitches.

[144] See Chardin, vol. i. p. 31.

[145] Tin, called "laton," was used to debase the metal
threads in the Middle Ages. It is also named as a
legitimate material for metal embroideries.

[146] For all information about asbestos, see Yates, pp.
356, 565.

[147] There is one at the Barberini Palace at Rome. A
sheet, woven of asbestos, found in a tomb outside the
Porta Maggiore, is described by Sir J. E. Smith in his
"Tour on the Continent" (vol. ii. p. 201) as being
coarsely spun, but as soft and pliant as silk. "We set
fire to it, and the same part being repeatedly burnt,
was not at all injured."

[148] See Yule's "Marco Polo," vol. i. pp. 215, 218, and
Yates, p. 361.

[149] There are specimens of bead-work pictures at St.
Stephen's at Coire, in the Marien-Kirche at Dantzic, and
elsewhere. See Rock, p. cv. This is, in fact, mosaic in
textiles, without cement.

[150] Witness the stone whorls for the spindles in our
prehistoric barrows, and the "heaps" of the lake cities.

[151] Yates, "Textrinum Antiquorum," p. 129.

[152] An Egyptian Dynasty called themselves the Shepherd
Kings.

[153] Yates gives endless quotations to show how ancient
and how honourable an occupation was that of tending
sheep.

[154] Semper, i. p. 139. The cover of the bed on which
was laid the golden coffin in the tomb of Cyrus was of
Babylonian tapestry of wool; the carpet beneath it was
woven of the finest wrought purple. Plautus mentions
Babylonian hangings and embroidered tapestries. See
Birdwood's "Indian Arts," i. p. 286.

[155] Joshua vii.

[156] Ezekiel xxvii. 22.

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