Kaunakes

The Kaunakes (plural, Greek καυνάκης ) originally referred to a fur coat from mouse or weasel fur, then emerged from an apron, made ​​of fur Halbrock the Sumerians of the 4th millennium BC, after the Mesopotamian rock of the 3rd millennium BC Chr ( tressed ). Women wore the Kaunakes not as a half skirt, but as a cloak.

The garments were made of a wool fabric, which was modeled on a sheepskin by Wollzotten stage were woven in one over the other or when weaving loops were drawn from the weft, so that was a pile fabric.

It was probably a piece of clothing ritual nature. Pictures of such substances are used in medieval Europe to characterize people from distant countries, as iconographic symbol, eg John the Baptist.