The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances; / Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing, and Weaving.

by Clinton G. Gilroy

SENECA, THE PHILOSOPHER.

As yet figured cloths did not exist: gold was not woven, it was not even extracted from the ground.—Epist. 91.

LUCIAN

describes the tragic actors, when they performed the part of kings, as wearing a chlamys interwoven with gold[119].

[119] Somnium, vol. ii. p. 742. ed. Hemsterhusii.

APULEIUS.

They carefully spread over the couches, cloths figured with gold and Tyrian purple.—Met.

PHILOSTRATUS

depicts Midas wearing a golden robe[120].

[120] Imag. i. 22.