On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Schaeffer, Astrida wrote: > But anyway, these don't sound particularly special or embellished, > though again, not seeing the original source I may simply not have > enough info.
Yep. The first set were "in grain," meaning kyed with kermes (exhorbitantly expensive). But the second were just "blue cloth." I too would love to know what the original said. Newton's translations aren't always inarguable. Worth noting also this is for a king, so we'd need a few steps more to generalize either to a lower class level or to women. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
