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Accession_Number 2005.7.19
Shape Textile
Shape_description
Material Wool
Fabric
Fabric_description Six small fragments of dark green woollen cloth
Munsell_color
Decoration None, although possible area of selvedge
Inscriptions
Condition Fragment. Poor
Technique/Style Tabby
Provenance Unknown
Period Islamic / Modern
Date 7 c. AD or later
Dating_details Date uncertain
Artist
Attribution
Image

2008.07.0029.jpg
Coptic textile fragments before conservation process made of green dyed wool undyed/yellow dyed? wool undyed bast fibre All samples plain weave Numerous fragments; weave very distorted; some wool surfaces matted Features include running stitches, two stitched edges; 2 folded fragments...

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Coptic textile fragments before conservation process made of green dyed wool undyed/yellow dyed? wool undyed bast fibre All samples plain weave Numerous fragments; weave very distorted; some wool surfaces matted Features include running stitches, two stitched edges; 2 folded fragments...

2013.02.0021.jpg
Close up of one of the dark green fragments of textile undergoing conservation process.

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Close up of the dark green fragments of textile undergoing conservation process.

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Close up of one of the yellow fragments of textile undergoing conservation process.

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Close up of one of the brown/yellowish fragments of textile undergoing conservation process.

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Coptic textile fragments undergoing conservation process.

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Mounted and finished fragments of coptic textiles after conservation process.

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Reversed textile fragments, mounted after conservation process was finished.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. L. 1.5 - 9.5; W. 11.0 - 4.2
Location Coptic textiles
Edited_by Anthea Harris; Kinsey; Joana Varela
Date_edited 31.07.2005; 11.01.2006; 20.04.2017
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