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Silk

Colors & materials

Fiber from silkworm cocoons — luxury road and court cloth. Not cotton, and not samite as one weave name alone.

  • Silk is used in Dye.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats silk among Seres cloths that enter Roman luxury dress and color. A Roman-era textile attestation of the filament cloth as a dyed luxury ground, not wool and not a Chinese loom treatise.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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