Talk:Cloth of gold
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proof/refernces?
Which particlar cloth of gold?
eg. heavily emboidered gamrents might be called cloth of gold, and would have a substantial weight of gold on them.
But actual woven gold cloth indeed might not be gold at all, but for all periods, places?
There is a cloth made from mollusks called byssus and is also called "cloth of gold" however there was also cloth woven from threadmade of finely beaten gold wound around a core.
Cloth of Gold
Cloth containing metalic gold thread was known as Tissue of Gold not Cloth of Gold which was made from the byssus threads from the PEN MUSSEL.
