Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church IV, Vault B (-B) (funerary). Field registration number: 66:1:10. Textile register number: n.d. Around body inside coffin.
13th-14th c. CE
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3549.1/.2/.3/.4 (sample fragments)
The complete piece ("Quilt, red, resist-dye") was donated to the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo and recently transferred to the Egyptian Textile Museum, Cairo, where it is probably registered under number TM 346 (data obtained during my stay in December 2017).
a) lining of quilt:2.5x6 (folded)
b) resist printed material of quilt: 5x1.8
c) padding of quilt: 4x3
d) quilting thread: 5.5cm long
a) Tabby
b) Tabby
c) Tabby
d) n.c.
a) None.
b) Blue ground (piece-dyed).
c) Resist-dyed. Cream pattern on red ground (band with small roundels).
d) n.c.
a) lining:
- linen
- S spun
- blue
- 10 warps/cm
b) resist printed material of quilt:
- cotton
- Z spun
- resist-dyed in red (or brown?)
- 12 warps/cm
c) n.c.
d) n.c.
a) lining:
- linen
- S spun
- blue
- 10 picks/cm
b) resist printed material of quilt:
- cotton
- Z spun
- resist-dyed in red (or brown?)
- 12 picks/cm
c) n.c.
d) n.c.
c) Padding: raw linen? +linen thread, 2sZ, blue (piece dyeing), c. 2cm long. d) Quilting thread: wool, 2sS, cream (undyed) mixed with blue. Data from field register: "Quilt of red print cloth, edged with green, backed with green, Arabic text in design. 1.20 x1.80 m."
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Import.