Byssinum

Digitabula byssina Tarenti facta

"Imago Manoppello" panno byssino picta

Byssus Pinnae nobilis

Byssinum (sc. textum) est pannus e byssis molluscorum (et praecipue Pinnae nobilis) textus. Fila byssi, manu ducta et suco limonis macerata, colorem aureum indelebilem accipiunt.

Nexus externi

• "Sticky When Wet"
• "Wet Wonder Glue" apud Waite Research Lab
• "Project Sea-Silk" apud Museum Historiae Naturalis Basileensis
• Historia telae byssinae
• Quomodo byssus neri potest

Bibliographia

• Bretschneider, Emil. 1871. On the Knowledge Possessed by the Ancient Chinese of the Arabs and Arabian Colonies and Other Western Countries. Londinii: Trübner
• Ecsedy, Hilda 1975. "Böz – An Exotic Cloth in the Chinese Imperial Court" in Altorientalische Forschungen vol. 3 pp. 145-153
• Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. Charleston: BookSurge. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1 (vide Sect. 12 et appendicem B "Sea Silk")
• Laufer, Berthold. 1915. "The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb" in Journal of American Folk-lore vol. 28 no. 108 pp. 103-128
• McKinley, Daniel L. 1988. "Pinna and Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations" in Ars Textrina vol. 29 pp. 9-223
• Maeder, Felicitas. 2002. "The project Sea-silk: rediscovering an ancient textile material" in Archaeological Textiles Newsletter no. 35 pp. 8-11
• Maeder, Felicitas, Ambros Hänggi et Dominik Wunderlin, edd. 2004. Bisso marino: fili d'oro dal fondo del mare; Muschelseide: Goldene Fäden vom Meeresgrund. Basileae: Naturhistoriches Museum and Museum der Kulturen
• Schafer, Edward H. 1967. The Vermillion Bird: T'ang images of the south. Berkeley: University of California Press
• Starr, Cecie et Ralph Taggart, Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, 2004
• Turner, Ruth D. et Joseph Rosewater. 1958. "The Family Pinnidae in the Western Atlantic" in Johnsonia vol. 3 (1958) pp. 285-326