Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.

The signs can be sorted out into two main classes: those which are paired or 'coupled' … and those which stand alone—mostly tectiform (roof-shaped) and claviform (key-shaped). There seems to be a conventional arrangement whereby certain signs are placed at the beginning of a 'sanctuary'.

Knowing every damn thing that's going on in the world, being super intelligent, being the most gyani baba and being financially broke! What a joke! And most people are like that.

On 3 Rabi‘ al-Thani 1414H (20 September 1993AD), Ibn Baz responded to Naif's official letter.