Classical Studies 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Putting-Out System, Lysistrata, Fustian
27 Jan 2014
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Rj forbes has 260 pages dedicated to ancient textiles (dutch guy who writes in english) Poets tell us a lot of information about spinning and weaving when it comes to textiles (like. Greek and especially roman poets wrote a lot of information on the processes. Fibres there are four fibres two are animal (wool and silk) and two are vegetable (flax and cotton). There were others but there were relatively insignificant. Wool many varieties of sheep in the ancient world. Neolithic age (probably happened in the middle east, in highlands of baluchistan, afghanistan and probably iran. Egyptians had large amounts of sheep in pre-dynastic times and earliest surviving samples of wool are from pre-dynastic egypt. Egyptians didn"t care for wool on religious grounds sheep are stupid. They didn"t wear wool was because it was super-hot in egypt. By archaic period (dynastic period), 3000bc, egyptians switched mainly to linen.
