Textile fragment with brocade BM EA72288

Find spot (context): Qasr Ibrim (Sudanese Nubia) (settlement). Textile register QI72T/248.

Dating: Early Christian Period (7th-10th CE).

Present location: British Museum, London. Inventory number EA72288.

Dimensions (in cm): 30x12.5

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: Geometric motifs (crosses, lozenges, squares) brocaded in bands with red, blue and yellow woollen threads.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
-S
- undyed
- 12 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S
- undyed
- 14 picks/cm

Other features: The woollen threads are S spun and paired. The cotton threads are sometimes overspun.

Documentation: British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA72288
Textile seen in January 2017 (MM Wozniak).

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.