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A work made of linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile and insets of slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and supplementary wrapping weft details.

Fragment

Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

Coptic Egypt

Egypt

Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile and insets of slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and supplementary wrapping weft details

Textiles