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IN this second study in the series dealing with the history of weaving, M. Émile Cherblanc reviews the evidence from all sources, including that now made available by recent archæological discovery in Irak, bearing on the nature of the garment, reputedly of Chaldean origin and known to classical writers, notably Aristophanes, Menander and Pollux, as the kaunakes (ϰαu vαϰης). M. Heuzey in 1886 in a communication to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres concluded, on the evidence of two monuments, as well as the literary sources, that the kaunakes was an oblong maritle of wool with a long pile, which was worn draped simply about the body.
Histoire générale du tissu
Document No. 2: Tissus anciens. Partie 1: Le Kaunakès ; étude critique d'après les textes, les monuments, figurés et les survivances supposées du tissu. Par Émile Cherblanc. Pp. 66+16 plates. (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1937.) 30 francs.
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Histoire générale du tissu. Nature 141, 1038 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1411038b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1411038b0