Pre Historic and Ancient Eygpt
This fiber is used to make linen.
Flax
Sandals were the common footwear for ancient Egyptians. These were often fashioned from leather and could have woven _______ for soles.
Papyrus
In a detailed study of Minoan costume in the 1960s suggests that the tailored costume of the Minoans may have evolved from the early use of ______ for clothing.
Leather
Like Egypt, fabric in the Greek Empire was _______
This status was clearly marked by dress. The male citizen was entitled to wear the ______
Toga
The oldest cloth in modern times was discovered in a tomb in Eygpt in the 1913 . It was a linen dress was named the _______. The garment dates back to the 4th millennium.
Tarkhan Dress
The practice of shaving or plucking hair was in response to the ______.
Heat
Cotton fiber was apparently brought to Greece by the soldiers of ______________. It could not be grown there because of the climate.
Alexander the Great
For Greek women in the Classical Period, hair was pulled into a knot or ________ at the back of the head.
Chignon
Beginning in Republican times, senators were distinguished by their dress. Their tunics (and those of the Emperor) had broad purple bands that extended from hem to hem across the shoulders. These bands were called _____
Clavi
While a female pharaoh also wore a symbolic headdress/crown, she usually did so over natural hair shaven close to the head. __________ famously chose to shave her head to facilitate the headdress
Queen Nefertiti
This material was used mostly in Ancient Egypt for clothing
Linen
Fabrics were bleached with the fumes of a _________ compound.
Sulfur
Various styles were worn for cool weather. The most notable example was the ______ , a rectangular cloak of leather or wool pinned over the left shoulder
Chlamys
In the Roman Empire, loin cloths were called _________ .
Subligaria
This material was used around the eyes of Ancient Egyptian. This material reflected the sun's glare away from the eyes (in the same manner modern-day American football players apply black streaks beneath their eyes).
Kohl
Around 3400 BCE, makeup palettes were especially popular and this might have been because of the symbolism of the ______.
Fish
The name of the Greek loin cloth?
Perizoma
The _________ was a rectangle of fabric large enough to wrap around the body.
Himation
Beards predominated in the Republican years; clean-shaven faces during the Empire until the reign of __________, an Emperor who was bearded.
Hadrian
Ancient Egyptians thought that _____ being the hair of animals was unclean, so they did not use it in clothing. In the rare occasions that wool was used, it never met the skin, and it was never used on nobility such as high priests and priests.
Wool
Only a few years ago a team of archaeologists discovered flax fibers that are more than ______ years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans. The fibers, discovered during systematic excavations in a cave in the Republic of Georgia
34,000 years old
Variations in the appearance of ________ were often achieved by belting the _______at any of several locations, by creating and manipulating a fold over the top of the fabric, and by varying the placement of the pins at the shoulder.
Chiton
The ______, a small rectangle of fabric worn by women and men, especially over the Ionic chiton, was draped in much the same way as the himation
Diplax
A white linen handkerchief and its variants had differing names and uses:
________ : to wipe off perspiration, to veil the face, or to hold in front of the mouth to protect against disease.
Sudarium