Textile fragment SNM 18129

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Building II-III, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/176

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18129.

Dimensions (in cm): 27.5 x 31 (after conservation)

Weave: Tabby

Decoration: Plaid effect, red and dark blue.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- 12 red, 12 blue
- 16 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- 8-10 red, 8 blue
- 12 picks/cm

Other features: Reinforced selvedge preserved, Type C2.

Documentation: Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.
Textile conserved by B. Czaja within the frame of the "Nubian Textiles" project (funded by National Science Centre, Poland (grant POLONEZ nb. 2015/19/P/HS3/02100) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°665778).

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian