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Textile:
ITC 2008.1

mid - late 18th Century

A fragment consisting of part of the border of a red shawl. The fabric is twill woven. The design consists of a repeating series of large buta motifs. The predominant colours are reds but there are...

Textile:
ITC 2000.9.1

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse plain woven cloth. Light brown colour with darker brown stripes formed by double weft threads which are not at standard intervals. Very creased. This is a wrapping from the mumm...

Textile:
ITC 2009.218.1

c. 3900 BCE

Cloth fragment from grave 45 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie.

Textile:
ITC 2009.217.1

c. 4400 BCE

Cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie. Plain woven with one edge turned under and slip stitched with a single linen thread, into position. The turning appears to be ...

Textile:
ITC 2009.219.1

c. 766 BCE

Cloth fragment from the cemetery at Tarkhan excavated by Petrie.

Textile:
ITC 2008.10

1250-1517

A round cap composed of five separate layers decoratively stitched. The cap is quilted with similar cut and construction of the internal and external fabric layers. The quilting (back stitch) is sup...

Textile:
ITC 2000.9.10

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in th...

Textile:
ITC 2000.9.100

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

Textile:
ITC 2010.1001

before 1700

Italian velvet with cut and uncut pile. The background is ecru and the velvet pattern is of stylized leaves.

Textile:
ITC 2010.1003

before 1700

This sample has an asymmetrical pattern of stylized leaves and buttonhole shapes, reminiscent of the slashed fabrics of the period. A very worn fabric, which originally had a velvet pile on the leaf s...

Textile:
ITC 2010.1005

before 1700

The background textile is silk and silver plate. The pattern is formed from cut and uncut velvet.

Textile:
ITC 2010.1008

before 1800

A brocatelle with linen and silk weft and warp facing red silk. A satin and twill weave form the large pattern of folliage.