Ancient Egyptian and Greek LoomsRoth, H. Ling (Henry Ling)
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Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling)
Looms; Weaving
12. A linen cloth, with no selvedge edge. It has been
dyed red, probably _ferum_, a dye which I find uniformly
associated with friable or decomposing fibres.
13. A peculiarly coloured fine linen cloth; the pattern
is caused by some of the warp yarns being dyed, and
occurring sometimes of four, two, or one red strands,
with grey ones intermixed. A few of the warp yarns are
doubled. The weft is composed of single yarns and are
all in the grey.
14. A coarse soft-woven linen fabric, containing no
size. Lines are indicated at irregular distances along
the cloth, varying from 5/16" to 9/16" (8 to 14 mm.);
these are caused by the introduction of three strands of
doubled yarn in the warp while the remainder are single
yarns. The weft is all of doubled yarns; both warp and
weft are very regular in diameter.
15. This is a variegated linen fabric with warps
coloured something like No. 13, but the red strands of
warp are more irregular in distribution. Like it, a few
of the warp yarns are doubled, both the red and the
grey; while the weft is all of single yarns and in the
grey."
[A considerable quantity of specimens of the cloths which were woven
by the Ancient Egyptians has been examined both in this country and
abroad. I may, however, call special attention to the results of
examination published in Miss M. A. Murray's excellent little work
_The Tomb of Two Brothers_, Manchester Museum Publications, No. 68,
1910.--H.L.R.]
DETAILS OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE BODY WRAPPINGS.
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