Chapter IV: Materials

Raw materials--Revelations of the microscope--Hemp--Jute--
Honduras grass--Spartum--Pinna silk--Hair--Leather--
Feathers--Asbestos--Coral--Pearls--Beads--Wool--Classical
notices of wool--Careful improvement of wool by the
ancients--Tanaquil--Homeric woollen carpets--Crimson
textile fragments--Scandinavian woollen garments--Qualities
of wool--English wool--Goats' hair--Flax--Lake cities--
Byssus--Fine linen of Egypt--The Atrebates--Embroidery on
linen--Cotton--Indian origin--Carbasa--Buckram--Cotton
fabrics--Gold--Silver--Gold brocades--Jewish--Indian--
Chinese--Dress of Darius--Attalus--Attalic textiles--
Agrippina's golden garments--St. Cecilia's mantle--Roman
tombs--Gold wire--Anglo-Saxon tomb--Childeric's tomb--Proba's
gold thread--Golden wrappings from tombs of Henry I. and Henry
III.--Gold embroideries and jewellers' work of Middle
Ages--Spangles--Enamels--Purl--Modern schools of gold
embroidery--Silk--Pamphile of Cos--Early specimens of silk
stuffs--Chinese silks--The Seres--Mela--Seneca--M. Terrien
de la Couperie--Empress Si-ling-chi--Princess of
Khotan--Euripides--Lucan--Pliny--Silk in Rome--Ælius
Lampridius--Flavius Vopiscus--Tailor's bill--Justinian's
codex--Imperial monopoly--Paul the Silentiary--Bede--King
John's apparition--Greek and Sicilian manufactories of
silk--Distinctive marks of different periods--Lyons--Spain--
Italy--Flemish towns--Marco Polo--Satin--Welsh poem, "Lady of
the Fountain"--Chaucer--Velvet--Transference of work to new
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CHAPTER V.--COLOUR.

Harmony and dissonance--Names of tints--Authorities for
theories--Art of colouring--Expression of colouring--
Purple--Red--Crimson--Blue--Yellow--Pliny--Renouf--Chinese
colours--Indian dyes--Persian colours--Dyes of the
Gauls--Romans--Scotch--Scales of colour--MM. Charton and
Chevreul on tones of colour--Gas colours 175