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Purple wool fabric, with selvedge. Thick coiled strands of soft woollen yarn, green and yellow mingled, stitched across the cloth at intervals of around 2.5 cm. Selvedge on one side is thicker with 3 warps each composed of 3 threads. 10 warps per cm. 18 wefts per cm. Two threads form each weft thread.

Purple wool fabric, with selvedge. Thick coiled strands of soft woollen yarn, green and yellow mingled, stitched across the cloth at intervals of around 2.5 cm. Selvedge on one side is thicker with 3 warps each composed of 3 threads. 10 warps per cm. 18 wefts per cm. Two threads form each weft thread.

Object Wool fabric
Provenance Antinoe, Egypt
Site Rubbish heaps
Period Coptic; c. 7 AD. onwards
Material Wool
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1914.26.42
Copyrights Bolton Council