Karanis / Wool

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.01.1099
Other Number: Midgley 24.175.017
Type of Number: Catalogue Number
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis) Undetermined date
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Textiles
Materials: Wool
Length: 6;
Width: ;18
Height: ;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Small fragment of brown woven wool fabric with a single row of stitches along one edge and with darker yarns/fibers caught in three of the stitches.
Subjects: undecorated
Unit Grid Number: 0*60
Area: Fal 124
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Countermark: no
Condition Notes: Mostly clean with small areas of dirt. Some areas very worn and missing weft yarns. Edges frayed.
Fabric Structure: Weft-faced plain weave
Border Type: none
Selvedge Type: none
Sewing: There is a row of running stitches, 0.3 cm to 1.6 cm, parallel to the weft, near the edge of the fabric. Blue/black fibers that may have been part of another yarn are caught in three of the stitches.
Yarn #: 11099.WA.01;11099.WE.01;11099.YN.01;11099.YN.02
Function: warp;weft;sewing;yarn/fibers
Color: medium brown/orange (469);medium brown/orange (4690;off white/yellowed (OITHL);blue/black (BLK6)
Yarns/cm: 9;40;;
Structure: single;single;single, used doubled;fibers
Spin: s;s;s;
Twist Level: med;med;high;
Fiber: wool;wool;wool;wool
Type Category: Textile

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.01.1099
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.01.1099/0000_01_1099

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Full citation: "Karanis; Wool." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.01.1099/0000_01_1099. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.