Monastic dress included habit, girdle or belt, hood or cowl, and scapular (a long narrow cloth worn over the tunic).
When Ms. Wenner went on a trip to Bangkok, Bennett advised her to buy bolts of the saffron-yellow cloth worn by Thai monks.
They are still, too, and in darkness except for the blue light that strikes the jeweled cloth worn by the men and their animals.
(The other main component of Highland dress, as the traditional male garb of Scotland is called, is the plaid, which is a rectangular length of cloth worn over the left shoulder).
The use of the word gray (German grau, French gris, Romansh grisch) in this context derived from the homespun gray cloth worn by the men and gave rise to the name of the Grisons, or Graubünden ("Gray Leagues"), for the whole canton.
Later, when he became a paid teacher of English at Tenerif University, he spent spare time looking for old textiles, the sort of silk mantles called lambas -- broad pieces of cloth worn as togas -- that the rich and powerful wore throughout their lives in 19th-century Madagascar as blankets in the cradle to shrouds in the grave.
The greens are mostly verdigris, although those predominant in the landscape are mostly blends of blue and yellow pigments, and the green of the cloth worn by Mary Salome is malachite mixed with yellow lake.
Average exposure levels, determined from personal samplers (carbon cloth) worn at chest level for full 8-hour shifts, ranged from 0.4 to 112.3 ppm (geometric mean [geometric standard deviation], GM [GSD]: 6.1 ppm [4.5]); 4 workers experienced levels >50ppm, one of which exceeded 100 ppm.
I grew up in Botswana, and we were constantly regaled with cultural dances that included bare-breasted maidens and loin-cloth wearing men, especially in public places.
In Ghana, the most common of these appear on cloths worn at funerals and are called adinkra.
Polynesian grass skirts, wrap cloths worn by Masai warriors, waistcloths from Thailand, mantles from the Asante of Ghana, North African djellabas and full-skirted gowns from India.
