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Letter: Super silk

Published 3 April 2012

From Susanne Woodman

Silk garments protecting soldiers from shrapnel are hardly novel (4 February, p 36). In the 13th century, Mongolian soldiers wore raw silk shirts for exactly the same reason: if they were wounded, the silk made it easier to pull the arrow out.

Watford, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2859 published 7 April 2012

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