مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.107

2.107

kingdom from the Rūs and Alexandria except those whom the Sultan clothes in them; otherwise their shirts and garments are of fine cotton. He said: Garments are made of it resembling the Baghdadi lengths of cloth—but how can the Baghdadi lengths and the naṣāfī compare with them, for their fineness and delicacy of texture? Some of them equal the lawānis in fineness, along with [….]