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Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas
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Quote:in Egypt, the home of linen weaving in antiquity, for a fabric sample of 3500 items from 100BC to 450AD, that 90% are wool, 5% are wool and linen mixed, and less than 3% is pure linen.

Wasn't a good proportion of weaving done at home? Perhpaps if you compared the price of cotton and flax in, say, Ireland, you would would find flax and wool was cheap but cotton expensive? I know that there are several flax producing areas in Greek Thrace, so flax was presumably not so expensive there. Were there places elsewhere in Greece (not a very flat or marshy country) where flax grew? Did they grow cotton there?
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Re: Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas - by sitalkes - 02-25-2009, 02:21 AM

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