Linen

 Linen - very fine ancient fabric. The name comes from the English byssus - thin filament produced Mediterranean mollusc Pinna noblis for fixing on the rocks. One mollusk produces no more than two grams of secretion that hardens strong beam of silky filaments about six inches long. Of the thousands gathered shellfish receive no more than two hundred grams of fine linen. And only a few masters could weave a web of such filaments. Therefore clothes of fine linen in the ancient East was available only to kings, pharaohs, patricians, priests. Strips of linen wrapped mummy. Even more ancient mention of fine linen garments in high priests found in Scripture. But in this case, the fine linen called very fine linen cloth.