Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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chinkrooaries

 

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“Wednesdays—the day-of-painting—were devoted to the combining of different colors.

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“On those days the learned beings of the given group brought for demonstration every kind of object necessary for domestic use made of such colored materials as could last a very long time; namely, they brought ‘carpets,’ ‘fabrics,’ ‘chinkrooaries,’ that is, drawings made in various colors on specially tanned leather capable of lasting many centuries, and things of similar kind.

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“By means of variegated colors of threads, various representations of the nature of their planet and various forms of beings also breeding there were drawn or embroidered on these productions.