Byssinum

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.

Digitabula byssina Tarenti facta

"Imago Manoppello" panno byssino picta

Byssus Pinnae nobilis

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