Note 265 — Chapter IV
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The weaving of inscriptions in textiles is not a Saracenic invention. Pliny says it was a custom among the Parthians. See Rock’s “Textile Fabrics,” p. lxi.
“In allusion to lettered garments, Ausonius thus celebrates Sabina, of whom we otherwise know nothing:—
“‘They who both webs and verses weave, The first to thee, oh chaste Minerva, leave; The latter to the Muses they devote. To me, Sabina, it appears a sin To separate two things so near akin; So I have writ these verses on my coat.’”
See Lady Wilton on “Needlework,” p. 53.