Qasr Ibrim QI05 0051 Cotton debris

Catalogue number QI05 0051 Description Mass of cotton lint with broken seeds and calyx fragments and a mass, 90mm x 80mm x 20mm, of fine strong S single brown cotton yarns, diam. c.0.5mm. Also small blob of medium S single, soft, white cotton yarns, up to 1mm diam. and some lengths of Z plied 2 ply S single cotton yarns.

Context

Site Qasr Ibrim Context QI05 25318 Excavation year 2005

Basic information

Preservation state organic Object class fibres - processing waste


Material	cotton	cotton
Fibre identification method	naked eye	naked eye
Yarn structure	single
Diameter average	0.5 mm
Diameter range

FURTHER DETAILS

Colours brown

Data recorded by Felicity Wild and John Peter Wild Data entered by Bela Dimova Date of study 2005