By the third millennium BC, linen textiles could be found in many places in Europe and the Middle East. Linen is often confused with ramie when looking at Central Asian and Asian textiles and garments.
Sources:
- BURNHAM, Dorothy (1980). Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology, Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, p. 58.
- FITZGERALD, Maria (2012). 'Linen', in: Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward (eds.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, c. 450-1450, Brill: Leiden, pp. 325-329.
- TORTORA, Phyllis G. and Ingrid JOHNSON (2014), The Fairchild Books: Dictionary of Textiles, London: Bloomsbury, 8th edition, p. 350.
British Museum online catalogue (retrieved 26 June 2016).
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