se in the Sanskrit, Arabic, and
Persian languages. Yates, p. 341.

[186] In the AEneid, the garment of Chloreus the Phrygian
is thus described:--

"His saffron chlamys, and each rustling fold
Of muslin (_carpas_), was confined with glittering gold."

AEneid, xi. 775.

[187] Dakka muslins are the most esteemed. Their poetic
names, "running water," "woven air," "evening dew," are
more descriptive than pages of prose. See Birdwood, ii.
p. 259.

[188] Chintzes, calicoes, fine cloths, and strong
tent-cloths, cotton carpets, &c., &c. Forbes Watson
classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and
unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or
pintadoes. See Birdwood, p. 260.

[189] For Buckram and Fustian, see Rock, pp. lxxxv,
lxxxvi. In Lady Burgeweny's (Abergavenny) will, 1434,
she leaves as part of the furnishings of her bed "of
gold of swan," two pairs of sheets of Raine (Rennes),
and a pair of fustian. Anne Boleyn's list of clothes
contains "Bokerams, for lining and taynting," gowns,
sleeves, cloaks, and beds. Rock, lxxxvi. Renouard, in
his "Romaunce Dictionary," quotes the following: "Vestae
de Polpia e de Bisso qui est bacaram." For the antiquity
of this fabric, see Herr Graf'schen's Catalogue of
Textiles from the Fayoum.

[190] See Yates, p. 300, citing "Herod's silver
apparel."

[191] "Indian Arts," ii. p. 237.

[192] Rock, p. xxv. Yates (p. 3) says they cut their
gold for wearing apparel into thin plates, and did not
draw it into wire, as it is translated in the Vulgate
(Exodus xxxix.). The ephod made by Bezaleel was of fine
linen, gold, violet, purple, and scarlet, twice dyed,
with embroidered work. This tradition must have guided
the artist who designed the ephod in the National Museum
at Munich, in the seventeenth century, for a prince
boy-bishop.

[193] Quintus Curtius says that many thousands, clothed
in these costly materials, crowded out of Damascus to
meet Alexander.

[194] There is a very ancient local tradition at Shush,
that A.D. 640, in the reign of the Kaliph Omar, the body
of the prophet Daniel was found, wrapped in cloth of
gold, in a stone coffin; and, by order of the victorious
general, it was placed in one of glass, and moored to
the bridge w