Mohair
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A one-sentence encyclopedia entry defining mohair as the hair of a goat found around Angora in Turkey. It notes that the inhabitants of the city were all employed in making camblets from this hair. Useful as an example of eighteenth-century commercial description of the fiber.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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