Fragment of embroidered textile ROM 973.24.3494

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 100, room H (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #123. Surface debris.

Dating: Ottoman period?

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3494.

Dimensions (in cm): 4x6

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: Embroideries in blue (cotton), red and brown (wool) on cream (linen, undyed) ground. Band and kind of floral (?) pattern.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- linen
- S spun
- cream (undyed)
- 14 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- linen
- S spun
- cream (undyed)
- 14 picks/cm

Other features: Embroidery: brown woollen thread is S spun, red woollen thread is 2sZ., blue cotton thread is 2sZ.

Documentation: Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.