Undetermined. The textile is exhibited in the Christian gallery between glass panels with a plaited band, but no trace of the inventory number has been found on the object. The check of the inventory cards gave no matching.
Medieval Period.
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number unknown.
20 x 13; tassels' length 11 cm.
Tabby for the ground. Weft-faced tabby for the ornamental band.
Cream band on brown ground, woven at the edge of the fabric; brown fringe at the edge.
- wool
- S
- brown (undyed)
- 5 threads/cm
- wool
- S
- brown, cream (undyed)
- 5 picks/cm for ground, 12 picks/cm for ornamental cream band
At the edge of the fabric, the warps are grouped and twisted (Z2s) into a series of strands (Bergman's type B1).
Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.
n.c.
Nubian.