An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology / Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations.

by John W. Mollett

Tiraz, Arab. The ancient name of the apartment in an Arab palace set apart for weaving; also of the rich silken stuffs woven there.

Tire Valiant or Volant, O. E. A kind of head-dress. (Shakspeare.)

Titulus, R. (1) The title or Index of a book. (2) A notice in front of a house to be let or sold. (3) An epitaph or other inscription on monuments. (4) A large board mounted on a spear and inscribed with the numbers of the prisoners, cities, and standards that had been captured from the enemy; carried in a TRIUMPH or OVATION.

Tobine. A stout twilled silk.

Fig. 656. Roman Senator wearing the toga.

Toga, R. (tego, to cover). The principal outer garment of a Roman, as the Pallium (q.v.) was the national dress of the Greek. Among the different kinds of toga were the toga restricta, toga fusa, toga prætexta, toga pura or virilis, toga palmata, toga picturata, &c. The colour of the toga was ordinarily white. Candidates (from candidus, white) were so called from their whitening their togas with chalk; the toga pulla, of the natural colour of black wool, was worn in mourning; the toga picta, or embroidered toga, was for generals on their triumphs. (See also Prætexta, Trabea, &c.) The illustration (Fig. [656]) represents the statue of a Roman senator of the Augustan age.

Togatus, R. Wearing the toga; essentially the Roman costume, opposed to palliatus, a man in the Greek dress.

Togula, R. (dimin. of toga). (1) A toga of a fine texture; or (2) the short and threadbare toga of coarse texture, worn by a poor man, who then went by the name of togatulus.

Toilinet. A textile of silk or cotton warp, with woollen weft.