Through the apertures of this young ice dark vapors rose like steam through a screen of porous fabrics and fell in feathers of snow along the sparkling shores.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Then the bundles were opened and blossomed into colours and fabrics.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
At the same time the fabrics of Babylon and Egypt roused them to emulation, and called forth an industry among the Phenicians which we see producing woven stuffs, vessels of clay and metal, ornaments and weapons, and becoming pre-eminent in the colouring of stuffs with the liquor of the purple-fish, which are found on the Phenician coasts.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker