Karanis / Wool

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.01.2744
Other Number: Midgley 24.149.001
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis) Undetermined date
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Textiles
Materials: Wool
Length: 27;
Width: ;15
Height: ;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: The above measurements do not reflect warp and weft direction, as there are two smaller pieces of the same fabric that have been attached at right angles. The fabric is yellowed woven wool. There is a clean area near the center with stitches along part of the edge, where a patch may have been attached.
Subjects: undecorated
Unit Grid Number: 5015
Area: R
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Countermark: no
Condition Notes: Very dirty, except the center area where there may have been a patch. Very worn. there are several small interior holes and larger edge tears. One very long edge tear almost cuts the fragment in two. There are areas of thinned or missing wefts that leave exposed warps. Some edge fraying.
Fabric Structure: Weft-faced plain weave.
Border Type: none
Selvedge Type: none
Sewing: Three rows of stitches were used to attach the small fragment at lower left. These stitches measure from 0.2 cm to 0.5 cm long. Some are overcast, some are running stitches. Running stitches, from 0.3 cm to 0.5 cm long, edge the clean patch. There are a few blue fibers caught in some of these stitches. Two rows of stitching attach the small fragment at the upper right. The running stitches are four-strand and measure from 0.4 cm to 0.7 cm long. The overcast stitches measure mostly 0.3 cm long. Part of an outside edge of this attached piece was folded, with one 0.3 cm long stitch remaining. The top edge was folded and sewn with stitches that measure from 0.2 cm to 0.7 cm long. There is a 1 cm long stitch along this edge towards the left side. The yarns used for all the stitching are very similar.
Yarn #: 12744.WA.01;12744.WE.01;12744.YN.01;12744.YN.02;12744.YN.03
Function: warp;weft;sewing;sewing - four strand, upper right corner.;fibers caught in stitches around patch
Color: off white/yellowed (OITHL);off white/yellowed (OITHL);off white/yellowed (OITHL);off white/yellowed (OITHL);dark blue (5395)
Yarns/cm: 9;34;;;
Structure: single;single;single, used doubled;single, used as four strands;fibers
Spin: s;s;s;s;
Twist Level: high;low;med;med;
Fiber: wool;wool;wool;wool;wool
Type Category: Textile

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 1910 x 1477
File Size: 203 KB
Record: 0000.01.2744
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.01.2744/0000_01_2744p01.tif

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