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Excerpt from The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Vol. 3 She has a fertile territory, wherein is made the finest sz'rgo in the world. From here they trade in it with every part of Spain. Here too is made the finest of all linens, and that which the women best esteem. Of Baeza he wrote: She manufactures excellent and famous silken cloths of the kind which are called tapefes and of Alicante, This city lies in the Sierra de Benal catil, which in its turn is situated in the midst of other ranges containing prosperous towns where silken cloths of finest quality were made in other days and the weavers of these cloths were skilled exceedingly. 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.