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Excerpt from Furs and Fur Garments Origin of the use of fur in costume - Mentioned in Scripture - Its great antiquity - The red dye - Dyed rams - The Bairam ram - Byzantine and Venetian ladies - A red terrier - The legend of the Golden Fleece - Medea - The Amazons. The use of the skins of wool and fur bearing animals as convenient and readily adapted clothing, goes back to the remotest antiquity, even to the days of our first parents, who made themselves garments with the skins of beasts. This costume is common among all savage and half-civilized nations in cold, temperate and semi-tropical climates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1331878209
- ISBN 13 9781331878209
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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