Wikipedia has its interest, but is not the be-all and end-all of references. There are other articles on the net that say it was also used in the Middle East. . . . You might want to do more research on colored cotton, not necessarily on the net. Thank you, Fran, I am very aware of the limitations of Wikipedia. I also did a huge amount of research on early cotton for Stephen Yafa for his book, "Big Cotton", and found nothing, at the time, on red cotton being used in Egypt. It has, just now, been pointed out to me that red cotton was known in Anatolia; that would then beg the question about its importation into Egypt in the 12th-century. Did Egypt actually import cotton? It is possible that the same conditions that produced the Anatolian red cotton occurred in Egypt. Nancy
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