What made the clothes of Pharaoh??

Herodotus describes the process of embalming the Egyptian mummies, saying that "the body from head to toe is bandaged and wrapped in linen."Egyptologist  John Gardner WilkinsonDeconstructing underwear in Egyptian royal tombs, and took samples from the yarns of the fabric to assess the skill of ancient Egyptian weavers. He studied in a span of cloth made of fine linen, and found 152 primary and 71 auxiliary thread.

This enabled him to say that: fine linen is one of the finest fabrics, because it can be compared with modern specimens, the most sensitive of which contain 88 auxiliary thread. Height is often mentioned in the Bible, he was made the clothing of priests . In Rome, the clothes made from this material were originally exclusively for the emperors, then started to wear them and the patricians, and finally representatives of the oldest profession. According to one legend, it was of fine linen, and not by the skin of sheep has been done and the Golden Fleece. In the Middle Ages fine linen is processed in India and the Mediterranean strani.Ot it did have socks and gloves. Today, only a few women inSardinia  have kept the art of spinning of fine linen.

What is this lovely fabric?Threads linen residents have gathered on the shore of the Mediterranean, the places of accumulation of molluscs at the foot of which is the gland that produces protein secretion - byssus (byssus, which in English means "fine linen") . Byssus hardens in the form of filament and produces a strong silk thread with alength of about 6 centimetersby which the oyster is attached to objects underwater.Byssus fabric is so thin that a pair of gloves made from it can be placed in shell of walnut.