Byssinum
Byssinum (sc. textum) est pannus e byssis molluscorum (et praecipue Pinnae nobilis) textus. Fila byssi, manu ducta et suco limonis macerata, colorem aureum indelebilem accipiunt.

Nexus externi 
 "Sticky When Wet"
 "Wet Wonder Glue" apud Waite Research Lab
 "Project Sea-Silk" apud Museum Historiae Naturalis Basileensis
 Historia telae byssinae
 Quomodo byssus neri potest

Bibliographia 
 Bretschneider, Emil. 1871. On the Knowledge Possessed by the Ancient Chinese of the Arabs and Arabian Colonies and Other Western Countries. Londinii: Trübner
 Ecsedy, Hilda 1975. "Böz – An Exotic Cloth in the Chinese Imperial Court" in Altorientalische Forschungen vol. 3 pp. 145-153
 Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. Charleston: BookSurge. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1 (vide Sect. 12 et appendicem B "Sea Silk")
 Laufer, Berthold. 1915. "The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb" in Journal of American Folk-lore vol. 28 no. 108 pp. 103-128
 McKinley, Daniel L. 1988. "Pinna and Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations" in Ars Textrina vol. 29 pp. 9-223
 Maeder, Felicitas. 2002. "The project Sea-silk: rediscovering an ancient textile material" in Archaeological Textiles Newsletter no. 35 pp. 8-11
 Maeder, Felicitas, Ambros Hänggi et Dominik Wunderlin, edd. 2004. Bisso marino: fili d'oro dal fondo del mare; Muschelseide: Goldene Fäden vom Meeresgrund. Basileae: Naturhistoriches Museum and Museum der Kulturen 
 Schafer, Edward H. 1967. The Vermillion Bird: T'ang images of the south. Berkeley: University of California Press
 Starr, Cecie et Ralph Taggart, Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, 2004
 Turner, Ruth D. et Joseph Rosewater. 1958. "The Family Pinnidae in the Western Atlantic" in Johnsonia'' vol. 3 (1958) pp. 285-326

Textilia