[Jacob-list] Dyed-in-the-Wool

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Fred here...speculation.  Homer writes about the multi colored cloaks of the 
Phoenicians.  The Phonecians were the marketeers of the "purple" dyd from sea 
shells.  There were two ways to get the "designer" look; dye the wool or dye 
the cloth.  The dye apparently stayed faster "in the wool" than in the cloth. 
 Who first wrote the phrase? ????  The Phonecians began dyeing about 
1500BC...then the industry died out.  They ran out of sea shells.

Aristotle, Pliny and some other guys I grew up with have a lot of interesting 
comments on farming...a lot of them, based on observation, very true.  A few 
of them aren't...such as the ram is the cause of twinning (half credit?).  
Fred