Quilt panel ROM 973.24.2901.6

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church IV, vault D (-A) (funerary). Field registration number: 66:1:35. Museum textile number #107.

Dating: 13th-14th c. CE

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.2901.6

Dimensions (in cm): 112x56 (from selvedge to selvedge)

Weave: Tabby

Decoration: Tie and dye patterns (circle and a kind of star made from small dots) in cream (undyed) on a dark red ground.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion): - cotton
- Z spun
- dark red
- 18 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion): - cotton
- Z spun
- dark red
- 18 picks/cm

Other features: Simple selvedge (Type C1). The fragment is one of the cotton panels that framed the central silk piece (ROM 973.24.2901.9) and also formed backside of the quilt. The other cotton panels (not examined) are pieces inv. ROM 973.24.2909.3 (216x54cm), ROM 973.24.2909.4 (107x22cm), ROM 973.24.2909.5 (214x56cm), ROM 973.24.2909.7 (220x69.5cm), and ROM 973.24.2909.8 (220x12). The pieces were sewn (and quilted) with a blue cotton thread (2zZ and 2zS).

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Imported. The whole quilt may have been made in Nubia from (reused) imported fabrics.