Textile stripes ROM 973.24.3554

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d.

Dating: No date.

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3554.

Dimensions (in cm): 20x1.2, 27x2.5, 17x1. (all folded)

Weave: Extended tabby 1/2.

Decoration: None.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S spun
- undyed
- 18 warps /cm

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

Other features: Selvedge type C1 (weft passes on three double warps) visible in all the three fragments. The fabric was torn into thin strips, folded, and possibly used as tying tapes.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.