Nineveh And Its Remains: With An Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan ...
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VL Were most noted for the weaving of cloth of divers cdofs.
In these stuffs gold threads were introduced into the woof of many hues.* Amongst those who traded in " blue clothes and embroidered work " with Tyre, were the merchants of Asshur or Assyria ;t and that the garments of Babylon were brought into Syria, and greatly esteemed at a very early period, we learn from their being classed amongst the most precious arti- cles of spoil, even with gold, in the time of Joshua.;]; They formed, perha...ps, " the dyed attire and embroidered work " so fre- quently mentioned in the Scriptures as the garments of princes, and the most costly gifts of kings. The ornaments and figures upon them may either have been dyed, worked in the loom, or embroidered with the needle, like " the prey of divers colors of needle- work, of divers colors of needle- work on both sides.'*§ The cotton manufactures of Babylon were as remarkable for brilliancy of color as fineness of texture, and Pliny attri- butes the invention of cotton weaving to Semiramis.|| The silken robes of Assyria were equally esteemed.
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VL Were most noted for the weaving of cloth of divers cdofs.
In these stuffs gold threads were introduced into the woof of many hues.* Amongst those who traded in " blue clothes and embroidered work " with Tyre, were the merchants of Asshur or Assyria ;t and that the garments of Babylon were brought into Syria, and greatly esteemed at a very early period, we learn from their being classed amongst the most precious arti- cles of spoil, even with gold, in the time of Joshua.;]; They formed, perha...ps, " the dyed attire and embroidered work " so fre- quently mentioned in the Scriptures as the garments of princes, and the most costly gifts of kings. The ornaments and figures upon them may either have been dyed, worked in the loom, or embroidered with the needle, like " the prey of divers colors of needle- work, of divers colors of needle- work on both sides.'*§ The cotton manufactures of Babylon were as remarkable for brilliancy of color as fineness of texture, and Pliny attri- butes the invention of cotton weaving to Semiramis.|| The silken robes of Assyria were equally esteemed.
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