Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 151 (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #124.
Ottoman period.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3495.
21x11
Double weave. Warp-faced tabby.
Girth decorated with various geometrical patterns in cream and brown set in small compartments.
- goat hair, camel wool (?)
- 2sZ
- dark brown, cream
- 10 warps/cm
- goat hair
- 2sZ
- dark brown
- 2-3 picks/cm
n.c.
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).