The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . From these skins it might be thatWoolen garments evolved. But Linen (flax) Cloth is found asa relic of the stone age, and is therefore prehistoric. CottonCloth is found in the graveyards of An£on, in Peru, which arepre-historic. What is probably our oldest tradition on this subject ?Lenormant states that the Jerusalem Talmud attributes the 355 356 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. making of Cloth to Naamah, the daughter of Lamech, andsister of Tubal-Cain. Thus the Hebrews held to a traditi
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . From these skins it might be thatWoolen garments evolved. But Linen (flax) Cloth is found asa relic of the stone age, and is therefore prehistoric. CottonCloth is found in the graveyards of An£on, in Peru, which arepre-historic. What is probably our oldest tradition on this subject ?Lenormant states that the Jerusalem Talmud attributes the 355 356 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. making of Cloth to Naamah, the daughter of Lamech, andsister of Tubal-Cain. Thus the Hebrews held to a traditionthat the great, great, great, great, great grand-daughter of Adamfirst spun the Wool of the flocks and wove the thread intoCloth. All our industrial arts are attributed to the family ofCain, the murderer, to which Naamah (meaning pleasant)belonged. What is Silk? Silk is the gummy, fibrous exudation of a worm, and resembleshair and horn in its chemical structure—that is, it is made of theprotoplasm Elements—hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon(See Life and Chemistry). The process of turning the exuda-. Fig. 130. SILK FIBRES ON THE MICROSCOPIC SLIDE. tions of the silk-worm into Cloth was a secret of the Chinese forages. In China, the word for Silk was See. The western nationscalled it Seer. Accordingly, they called China the Land ofSilk, or Seres. The Greeks said Sericon for Silk, the Romans,Sericum, and the French Sole, (probably from Soi, the nativename in Corea). For ages, the Europeans wore Silk withoutknowing what it was made of, the belief being general that theCloth came directly from the mulberry tree. In the time ofHenry VIII, of England, if a mans wife wore a Silk gown, hemust furnish a war-horse for the King. CLOTHES, ETC. 357 How does the Worm produce Silk ? By making a cocoon in which to lie until nature transformsthe worm into a moth. Silk could be made from all cocoons ofall insects of that order, and from the exudations of all insectsthat construct webs o
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