Ancient Egyptian textile fragment from Hawara dated AD 500 – 699

A fragment of a woven band. Blue wool woven ground with two ply blue woollen warp threads. There is a linen woven repeating geometric design of diamonds and other patterns. The designs have long floats on the reverse side. Double threads.
There are 13 to 14 warp and ten weft threads per centimetre.

Ancient Egyptian textile fragment from Hawara dated AD 500 – 699

Object details

  • Latitude: 29.266667
  • Longitude: 30.9