Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 5 (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #120.
Ottoman period.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3491.
16x24
Double weave (two warps, one weft working in each warp series in turn). Weft-faced tabby.
Bands with geometrical patterns in red and cream and in red and blue, separated with thin lines in brown and cream.
- goat hair
- 2zS
- dark brown and cream
- 5 warps/cm
- wool
- 2zS
- red, cream (undyed), blue, brown (undyed)
- 12-13 picks/cm
A leather fragment attached to the textile - thick sewing traces with a coarse dark brown thread (goat hair, 2sZ); the leather bears also thin stitching holes on its edge.
Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Nubian? In the Sudan, wool was usually doubled when a strong yarn was needed for the weaving of a tent cloth, saddlebags or horse or camel girth (see Crowfoot 1931, 19). The spinning of the yarns in the Z direction may indicate a late period of production. By comparison, textiles 973.24.3495 or #128 have 2sZ yarns.