On Tuesday 12 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I know this is going to be one of those simple questions with a > complicated answer, but I was just curious about when and where velvet was > invented? Specifically, would velvet or something similar have been > available, even to the very rich, in Constantinople around 800 AD? If not, > when and where do we first have evidence of it? This is for a story I'm > writing rather than a costume I'm building, so any information would be > useful.
There's an article on this with a brief bibliography from Stefan's Florilegium (a compendium of SCA e-mail posts and articles on various topics): http://www.florilegium.org/files/TEXTILES/Hst-of-Velvet-art.html -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You affect the world by what you browse."-- Tim Berners-Lee _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
