Berenike BE96 0200 Wool fibres

Catalogue number BE96 0200 Inventory number 5437 I Description Fragments of unspun wool from sieving, now felted.. (a) length of unspun brown fleece, with crimp (*). 4 mm long. No pointed ends visible. Not primitive fleece. (b) unspun, crimped, undyed pale buff wool (*). Length 80 mm. fine fibres. White wool fleece, no tapering ends. (c) wool fibre mass, undyed, green and purple. (d) 5 tiny bits of felted wool. Natural buff, unspun. (e) rounded blob of heavily felted wool fibres, c.1 cm?. (f) tiny scrap of wool fibres, undyed and dark blueish. (g) 6 blobs of heavily felted medium-brown wool fibres (*). Accidental felt, including cotton and dyed fibres. (h) scrap of pale animal? fibres, parallel, c.7 cm? (*). Ladder medulla (see drawing). (j) bright red fibre mass, wool + odd green fibres. ?HD 040 (k) blue-green flattened felted mass of wool fibres. HD 039. (a) length of unspun brown fleece, with crimp (*). 4 mm long. No pointed ends visible. Not primitive fleece. (b) unspun, crimped, undyed pale buff wool (*). Length 80 mm. fine fibres. White wool fleece, no tapering ends. (c) wool fibre mass, undyed, green and purple. (d) 5 tiny bits of felted wool. Natural buff, unspun. (e) rounded blob of heavily felted wool fibres, c.1 cm?. (f) tiny scrap of wool fibres, undyed and dark blueish. (g) 6 blobs of heavily felted medium-brown wool fibres (*). Accidental felt, including cotton and dyed fibres. (h) scrap of pale animal? fibres, parallel, c.7 cm? (*). Ladder medulla (see drawing). (j) bright red fibre mass, wool + odd green fibres. ?HD 040 (k) blue-green flattened felted mass of wool fibres. HD 039

Context

Site Berenike Context BE96 14.001 Excavation year 1996

Basic information

Preservation state organic Object class fibres


Material	wool
Fibre identification method	stereomicroscope
Yarn structure
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FURTHER DETAILS

Colours brown, white, green, purple, dark blue, brown, red, green, blue-green

Data recorded by Felicity Wild and John Peter Wild Data entered by Bela Dimova Date of study 1994-2001