Tunic of plain woven wool made from single piece of cloth. Neckline and short sleeve edges trimmed with narrow bands of red wool, edged with blue & patterned with cream linen in lozenge or leaf figure. Hemline decorated with deep band of stripes & slub effect weaving with extra red & orange weft threads introduced, and with fringe. Run & felled side seams. Tunic next to body.
Grave 1881: :Child of about 12 years, head west. Body wrapped in covering of coarse :brown cloth (bangles & beads immediately under this). Next, robe of brown cloth with neck & short sleeves woven with red pattern outlined in white. 4 reeds next to this. Round this was twice wound a strip of blue braid with white decoration. Thirdly a robe of brown cloth with neckband of blue with white floral design. Next to this, up the back were 4 supporting reeds. Fourthly, a robe with short elbow sleeves, with red border with white designs. Length of robe to just above ankles. Outer covering of head bound with strands of red, blue and green wool. Iron torque round neck. Under upper layer of cloth on chest, a horn bangle & one of tin(?). Two strings of beads; one amethyst drop, 1 carnelian ball, several imitation onyx & various beads of black & yellow glass; a few faience barrels; one “Coptic” bead of green opaque glass with yellow ends; and one large barrel bead with yellow and red eyes on a ground covered with green speckles. :CONSERVED: NWMS:18/1/1985: CON-TEX 1983-380: Description and report on file. Published in :Vivian Lochhead, ‘The conservation of four Egyptian tunics’, Archaeological Textiles, Occasional Papers no.10, U.K.I.C. 1990,pp.41-48. (APT notes)
Woollen tunic, fairly complete, with neck opening and sleeves. Coarse weave; yellow, deeply stained. Neck opening and sleeves with bands 25mm wide woven in red with stitching in thick white thread. On the lower part of the tunic are eight raised lines of decorative stitching, some in red. (Midgley notes)