in the warp, and 110 in the woof.
In the linen corselet given by Amasis of Egypt to the Lacedemonians, each thread, though fine, was composed of 360 other threads, all distinct.
It was handsomely embroidered.
The tomb of Rameses III.
at Thebes showed a similar corselet, worked with figures of animals.
Pliny notices the corselet of Amasis, shown in the temple of Minerva at Rhodes.
See flax.
It was first manufactured in England by Flemish weavers, under the protection of Henry III., 1253.
Before this, woolen shirts were generally worn.
A company of linen-weavers was established in London, 1368.
The Presbyterians, who left persecution in Scotland in the time of the Stuarts, planted the linen manufacture in the North of Ireland, and were encouraged by William III.
and succeeding governments.
Lin′en Paper.
As with paper of cotton, bamboo, morus bark, and silk, it appears that the first manufacture of linen paper was in China.
The Egyptians excelled in fine linen in
