Abstract This paper focuses on the figure of overseer linen (jmj-r sšrw ) during chronological period Old Kingdom. By choosing a wide selection sources, we have undertaken reconstruction main features that defined this title, looking in-depth at specific roles associated with it and contexts in which they were exercised. The nature sources has meant taken mainly iconographic approach, which, co...

Ramazinni, in 1705,1 was probably the first to record a description of the condition, though the term 'byssinosis', from the Greek for flax or linen, was not applied to it until 1908.2 It was Richard Schilling, however, who, in two papers in 1956,1 established the importance ofbyssinosis as acommon disabling condition within the cotton industry,3 and his work led to the inclusion of the conditi...

The textile industry is one of the most important consumer goods industries worldwide. Its mostly small and medium-sized enterprises produce textiles for various uses such as clothing, home textiles (such as bed and table linen, kitchen towels and cleaning rags), household textiles (such as curtains, furniture fabrics, textile floor coverings) and technical textiles (such as protective clothing...

One of the worst-affected hospitals is the southern hemisphere’s largest, the sprawling 2 800-bed Chris Hani Baragwanath in Soweto, where nonpayment shortages range from clean bed linen and food to life-saving surgical equipment. Surgeons reached the end of their tether in March when they were unable to order life-saving CT scans and were also forced to risk potentially life-threatening surgica...

The ‘*O/r60 ratios of cellulose and the D/H ratios of cellulose nitrate were determined for linen, a textile produced from the fibers of the flax plant Linum usitatissimum, and for maize (Zea mays) from a variety of geographic locations in Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The regression lines of bD values on 6”O values had slopes of 5.4 and 5.8 for the two species. Statisti...

A medieval artist originally used powdered ochre and applied it on a linen sheet laid over a body using a simple frottage technique. Only the most prominent features (elbows, hands, knees, upper parts of the legs and arms) were rubbed in such a way, otherwise large distortions would have been observed (experimental observation). Therefore the sheet was removed from the body and the image free-h...