Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 176 (D) (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #128.
Ottoman period.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inventory number.
20x13
Warp-faced tabby.
Banded stripes in black and white on beige ground.
- goat hair and wool
- all 2sZ
- dark brown (goat hair) and cream (undyed -wool)
- 11-12 warps/cm
- goat hair
- 2sZ
- dark brown and cream (mixed)
- 3-4 picks/cm
This object consists of two pieces (a warp-faced tabby and an edge of a similar textile) sewn together. As the textile is mounted, it is not possible to see the other side. The wefts of the warp-faced textile are easy to identify for they are spun from mixed cream and dark-brown fibres - they are visible on left, in the middle part where many beige warps are missing and on right. The edge consists of mostly dark brown threads and cream woollen ones, similar to the warps threads of the first fabric. There is a thick cotton thread (S spun yarns plied Z) sewn in the fabric and also remains of blue woollen threads which appear in three places under the thick cotton thread.
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).