Wool

Wool was to a certain extent considered impure, and hence was never used for burial wrappings; exceptions, in the case of some workmen’s bodies, have been found at Tourah. For this reason the priests did not wear it next their skin; and always removed their outer woollen garment before entering the temple. Only the poor made much use of woollen garments. But, that wool was one of the chief articles of commerce is certain from the fact that large flocks of sheep were reared in the Thebaïd; where, according to Strabo, mutton was unlawful food. Each sheep yielded two fleeces in the year. An exception to the rule that wool was regarded as impure is the case of the two women who were to recite the "Festival songs of Isis and Nephthys." The directions in the papyrus are that they were to wear garlands of ram’s wool.