Excerpt from Catholic School History of England Dress_ - In the matter of dress the more civilized wore a large cloak or mantle of woollen cloth of their own weaving. On their fingers, arms, neck, and head they wore ornaments made Of gold, silver, bronze, and iron. The northern and western Britons wore dresses made Of the skins of animals. They left their limbs bare; and painted on them patterns by means of a blue dye made from the juice of a plant called world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.