I received the following query (via my surviving garments web page)
from an author who needs help verifying a term. I'll post his
question below and will forward him anything people can provide to
help. (I haven't had a chance to check with him whether it would be
ok to post his e-mail address on this list, so I figure I can serve
as a conduit.)
Heather Jones
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He writes:
"Hope you can help me. I am in the process of writing my second
historical novel (the first is The Whale Road - HarperCollins) which
is partly set in the Middle East, around Jerusalem. I came across a
reference to a cloth that is woven to shape, neither cut nor sewn,
and worn by a high-ranking official (emir). The name I have is
bougameleon, but I have clearly misspelled it, since I cannot find
reference to it anywhere now - and, to compound the problem, my
original source material seems to have been lost.
This is now a query from my copy editor that I cannot seem to answer
- so I hope you can.
Ever heard of it? Anything similar to it?"
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So the gist of the question seems to be:
* Islamic Middle East, near Jerusalem (although no guarantees that
his original source was specific to that location)
* garment/cloth woven to shape, not cut or sewn
* worn by emir (presumably in his original source material)
* name something like "bougameleon"
* needs to verify correct name to satisfy his copy-editor
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