Roughly rectangular tabby-woven sample of cream-coloured linen decorated with cream-coloured linen, and shorter brown woollen(?) weft pile weave. The decoration on the Coptic(?) textile consists of a brown rectangular field. 2 cream-coloured bands, a stripe and an angle decorated with brown dots are inserted into this field. On 2 sides it is framed by longer cream-coloured loops.
sample (textileworking: weaving); textile
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