[Heyd (_Com. du Levant_, II. p. 109) says the inhabitants of Yezd wove the
finest silk of Taberistan.–H. C.] The silk manufactures still continue,
and, with other weaving, employ a large part of the population. The
_Yazdi_, which Polo mentions, finds a place in the Persian dictionaries,
and is spoken of by D”Herbelot as _Kumsh-i-Yezdi_, ‘Yezd stuff.’ [’He
[Nadir Shah] bestowed upon the ambassador [Hakeem Ataleek, the prime
minister of Abulfiez Khan, King of Bokhara] a donation of a thousand
mohurs of Hindostan, twenty-five pieces of _Yezdy_ brocade, a rich dress,
and a horse with silver harness….’ (_Memoirs of Khojah Abdulkurreem, a
Cashmerian of distinction … transl. from the original Persian_, by
Francis Gladwin … Calcutta, 1788, 8vo, p. 36.)–H. C.]
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