Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3490 [a]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 7 (D) (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #119.

Dating: Ottoman period

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3490.

Dimensions (in cm): 4.3 x 3.1.

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: Plaid effect in blue and cream. Bands and stripes of different width (from 0.7 mm to 0.1 mm).

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- Z (thickness varies from 0.3 to 1 mm)
- blue (thread dye), cream (undyed)
- 20 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- Z
- blue (thread dyed), cream
- 16 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Undetermined.