Karanis; Textiles; Wool

Notes:

Brown warp/brown, red, yellow wefts. Fragment of a balanced plain weave. Three weft bands yellow, red, yellow ca. 1.2 cm apart. Each band is two weft-shots of yarn. Decorative band is 1.5 cm above. Geometric pattern of diamond lozenges in brown, defined by yellow overlaid wefts. Border of double-wefts of yellow. Width of band ca. 5.5 cm (incomplete); Fragment of coarse goat hair fabric consisting of dark brown warp and weft with medium brown supplementary pattern weft, forming diamonds, and three stripes. Two stripes consist of two picks each in the balanced plain weave of the fabric and, in the third, three picks in the same shed. There is also a two pick stripe of dull red.

Data Provider:

University of Michigan. Libraries

Collection:

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Subject Topic:

Karanis; Textiles; Egypt

Language:

UND

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