[MR] fustian history

[SNSpies at aol.com]

Also of interest, this university of michigan page on 
trade textiles from far India and Java reaching the
port of Fustat by the late thirteenth century:

The Geniza documents from 9th-13th-century Cairo document Indian textiles 
being traded into the Mediterranean region before the 13th century.

Nancy


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