ese verses on my coat.'"

See Lady Wilton on "Needlework," p. 53.

[266] Birdwood, "Indian Arts," p. 274.

[267] Yates, "Textrinum Antiquorum," p. 244; Tegrini,
"Vita Castruccii," in Muratore, "Ital. Script.," t. xi.
p. 1320.

[268] Riano, "Cat. of Loan Exhibition of Spanish Art in
South Kensington Museum," 1882, p. 46.

[269] In Hoveden's account of the fleet of Richard I.
coasting the shores of Spain, he speaks of the delicate
and valuable textures of the silks of Almeria. Rog.
Hoveden, Ann., ed. Savile, p. 382. Rock, p. xx.

[270] Bock, pp. 39, 40, quotes from Anastasius and the
Abbot of Fontenelle, proving that silken rugs were
manufactured in Spain by the Moors.

[271] Auberville, "Histoire des Tissus," p. 14.

[272] Yule's "Marco Polo," p. 224. "Baudakin" from
Baghdad, "damask" from Damascus. "Baudakin" was woven
with beasts, birds, and flowers in gold.

[273] "Recit de Robert Clari." He was one of the
companions of Ville d'Hardouin, and a witness to the
coronation of Baldwin II. See Auberville's "Histoire des
Tissus," p. 21.

[274] Satin is called by Marco Polo "zettani," and he
says it came from Syria. The French called it "zatony;"
the Spaniards named it "aceytuni," which is probably
derived from "zaituniah," the product of Zaiton. Yates
(p. 246) gives the derivations of the words satin and
silk; the one imported to us through Greece and Italy,
the other from Eastern Asia, through Slavonia and
Northern Europe.

[275] Ibid. In the Wigalois, a story is told of a cavern
in Asia full of everlasting flames, where costly fellat
was made by the Salamanders, which was fireproof and
indestructible.

[276] "Man of Lawe's Tale: Canterbury Pilgrims."

[277] "Ohitos terciopelos" (three-piled-velvet eyes) is
a pretty Spanish phrase, describing the soft, dark,
shadowy eyes of the Spanish girls.

[278] The Italian word _velluto_ means "shaggy."

[279] Bock, i. pp. 99-101.

[280] Buckram was sometimes a silken plush, but
generally was woven with cotton. This was also Asiatic,
and named by travellers of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. I have already mentioned it as a textile in
the chapter on cotton. When woven of silk it belongs to
the class of velvets.

[281] Elsewhere I have spoken of the embroideries of the