Sudan, Sennar, Hillet Mahmud. Label: " 'Dammur' woven from "tree" cotton at Hillet Mahmud, Sennar"
20th century
Textile Research Centre, Leiden. Crowfoot collection (nb 007). Inventory number 2016.0034.
127x41
Tabby.
None.
- cotton
- S spun
- undyed
- 13-14 threads/cm
- cotton
- S spun
- undyed
- 11-12 picks/cm
One edge is cut, on the other one the warps are twisted and then grouped into fringes; then tabby weave on 4 picks, floating warps on 0.5cm and 1.5cm of weft-faced tabby. The short woven strip is possible a warp end form another piece of cloth which have been cut while the warps were used to attach new warps to it, by twisting it together. Grace Crowfoot described such a process in the Beaming section of her paper about spinning and weaving in Sudan (see Bibliography). Irregularly reinforced selvedges: on right side ca. 5 double warps, 1 triple warp and 1 double warp; on the left side 2/1 extended tabby on 2cm width.
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in May 2018.
Complete description at http://trc-leiden.nl/collection/?trc=&zoek=2016.0034&cat=&subcat=&g=&s=24&f=0&id=21050
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