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Indian resist-dyed cotton with dot-rosettes found at Berenike. Wall-hanging or curtain? Late Roman, late 4th – 5th century CE (photograph: J.P. Wild)

Indian resist-dyed cotton with lotus buds found at Berenike. Wall-hanging or curtain? Late Roman, late 4th – 5th century CE (photograph: J.P. Wild)

Surface wear on a wool tabby with tapestry band from Vindolanda, seen under the SEM, c. 104-120 CE (micrograph: Lucy Liu)

Linen curtain fragment in tabby weave with a small tapestry-woven flower bud(?). Late Roman Berenike, late 4th – 5th century CE (photograph: J.P. Wild)

SEM micrograph. Cross-section of carbonised bast fibre bundles. Ts 55, Inv. N_56/01/96, type 1. Vesuvian area (image: F. Coletti)

Weft-faced compound tabby (taqueté) with ‘Christmas tree’ pattern from Berenike, 1st century CE (photograph: J.P. Wild)

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Cotton sail reinforcement strip and brailing rings from Berenike, 1st century CE (photograph: S.E.Sidebotham)

Cotton textile in half-basket weave with dark and light blue bands from Qasr Ibrim, Late X-Group / Late Roman date (photograph: J.P. Wild)

Dyed thread from Pompeii (micro photograph: F. Coletti)

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