...of goat's-hair. The Tartar women excel in embroidery, and exhibit in this a skill, taste, and variety that is really admirable. It is very doubtful whether it would be possible to find, even in France , embroideries as beautiful and perfect as those sometimes executed by Tartar women. — Abbe Huc's Travels in Tartary. The tent of a late Persian shah was a load for forty camels, and cost $...