Triangular quilted panel from cap ROM 973.24.3524

Magdalena Woźniak
July 24, 2018

Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknow (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-3.

Ottoman period.

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3524.

9 (height) x 7 (base of the triangle)

Tabby.

Blue quilting, V-shape. Areas with a "relief" decoration. Outer layer is decorated with blue and white thin strips. Set of the warp is A/B/A/B/C/B/A/B/A/B/C, where A=3 undyed threads, B=4 blue threads and C=2 undyed+2blue+2undeyed.


a) outer layer:
- linen
- S spun
- blue, cream (undyed)
- 22 warps/cm

b) lining
- linen
- S spun
- cream (undyed)
- 11 warps/cm


a) outer layer:
- linen
- S spun
- blue
- 16 picks/cm

b) lining:
- linen
- S spun
- undyed
- 11 picks/cm

The thread used for quilting is 2sZ and 2zS linen (cream and blue fibres mixed); a short fragment of 2sZ cotton thread (undyed) preserved in the upper part of the panel. Between the outer layer and the lining, fragments of bast fibre (and paper?) were placed diagonally in both directions to create a relief effect. The quilting thread passes between these pading elements and designs V-shaped pattern. In the upper part of the panel, 4 "flowers" embroidered with pale green silk.

Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017. Museum textile register mentions piece ROM 973.24.3501 as comparative material (cap from linen and cotton, quilted, dated to 16th-18th c., found on the Citadel).

n.c.

Nubian?