I'm reading an article: "Objets archéologiques; Témoins dune quaiité de vie
urbaine dans le bourg monastique: by Nicole Meyer Rodrigues in Dossiers
d'Archaologie no. 297 (Oct. 2004) pp. 94-101.
On page 94 there is a picture of a knitted cap from the beginning of the
14th century - it's described as "Bonnet en byssus" -- the text appears on
page 101 as "Un bonnet tricoté en byssus, ou soie marine ou encore laine
de poisson, substance sécrétée par la pinna nobilis, un grand coquillage
bivalve de méditerranée. le bonnet provient dun dépotoir dont le
remplissage est date du debut du XiVe siècle..." which roughly means "A
bonnet knitted in byssus, or "marine silk" or "fish wool", substance
secreted by the pinna nobilis, a large bivalvular shell of the
Mediterranean. the bonnet comes from a dump whose filling is date of the
beginning of XIVe century..."
Has anyone ever heard of this stuff or worked with it?
Marc
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