Seventh century work, [361-2].
Sewing, plain, [197].
Sicilian patterns, [111];
embroideries, [124];
textile designs, [162], [341];
silk manufactures, [168];
fabrics, [315];
ecclesiastical designs, [331].
Sicily, textile art in, [41], [307].
Si-ling-chi, Empress, inventor of unwinding the cocoon, [156].
Silk, origin of, [151];
first woven by Pamphile at Cos, 300 B.C., [152];
Roman and Chinese, [153], [160];
trade in, [153];
in cocoon, [153], [156];
wild silk in China, [154-5];
attire mentioned in Latin poets, [157];
silken robes sold by Marcus Aurelius, [158];
garments given by Emperor Carinus, [158];
edict of Diocletian, with prices of articles, [159];
silk mentioned by poets and historians from first to sixth century, [159];
silkworm, [159];
monopoly of silk manufactures in Constantinople, [159];
first allusion to use of silk in Christian Church, [160];
palls of silk brought from Rome, A.D. 685, [160];
Bede’s remains wrapped in silk, [160];
specimens of silk in Auberville’s “Tissus,” silk tissues called “Imperial,” [161].
Silk-weavers, Jewish, at Thebes in 1161, [161];
transported by Roger, King of Sicily, from Greece to Palermo, [161], [165];
description of Royal manufactory at Palermo, by Hugh Falcandus, twelfth century, [161];
three periods in Sicily, [162-3];
Saracenic, in India, [166-7];
Italian, in Lyons, 1450, [167], [169];
Spanish at Malaga and Almeria, [168];
in Hungary under Queen Gisela, [169];
in the Flemish towns, [170];
Asiatic, [170].
Smock of Mary Tudor, [385].