Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3487

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 7 (A); Locus 118 (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #116.

Dating: Ottoman period

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3487.

Dimensions (in cm): 32 x 12.

Weave: Tabby, irregular (1/3, 1/2 and 1/1).

Decoration: Irregular thin cream bands.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S (over spun)
- brown (undyed)
- 6-8 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S (over spun)
- brown, cream (undyed)
- 10-12 picks/cm

Other features: Reinforced selvedge preserved, Type C2 (Bergman 1975) : 3 +3 + 2.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.