In Helaman 6:13 we find that the Nephite women "did toil and spin and did make all manner of cloth." According the Works of Ixtlilxochitl, they [the Tultec women of Mesoamerica] were great spinners, and weavers, weaving very gallant mantles of a thousand colors and figures -- those which they (the men) wanted, and as fine as those of Castile; and they wove the cloth in many different ways, some that looked like velvet, and others like very fine cloth; others like damask and satin; others like thin linen and others like thick linen, just as they (the men) wanted and needed. [Milton R. Hunter and Thomas Stuart Ferguson, Ancient America and the Book of Mormon, p. 315]