Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-1.
No date (context lost).
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3522.
198x93 (complete piece)
Tabby.
Edges decorated with plaited cord.
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 13 warps /cm
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 10 picks/cm
Starting border type A8. The plaited cord in blue, red and yellow forms a loop at each end of the edge. The loop is attached to a ball (one red, the other yellow), plaited in crochet (?) technique. Finishing border type B3 with tassels alternating 10 by 10 in yellow, blue and red. The selvedges are type C1. A plaited cord, in blue, red and yellow, similar to the corded edge, is sewn along the selvedges, starting at the corner and on about 20 cm. Then, a blue and green sewing imitates a corded edge along the selvedge and stops about 20cm from the finishing border. Between the tri-coloured cord and the blue and green sewing, there is a braided ball (greyish blue). Presence of wedges.
Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Nubian.