Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3488

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 7 (B) (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #117.

Dating: Ottoman period

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3488.

Dimensions (in cm): 19x7.

Weave: Weft-faced tabby.

Decoration: Alternating colour bands in red, blue, purple, orange and cream. Various width.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S2z very tightly plied
- cream (undyed)
- 6-7 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- red, blue, orange, purple (thread dyed), cream (undyed)
- 20 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Undetermined.