Berenike BE94 0109 Wool tabby, s/s

Catalogue number BE94 0109 Description Scrap of medium-fine tabby with selvedge, sewn to another scrap of ?tabby, with goat-hair yarn. Pale brown colour.

Context

Site Berenike Context BE94/1 002 PB5 Excavation year 1994

Basic information

Dimensions L. 20 mm W. 25 mm Preservation state organic Relative quality medium-fine Fabric structure tabby Warp and weft identified ✓

	System 1	System 2
Material	wool	wool
Fibre identification method	naked eye	naked eye
Colour
Yarn structure	single	single
Twist strength	medium
Twist	s	s
Twist angle average
Twist angle range
Diameter average
Diameter range
Thread count average	13.0
Thread count range		40

FURTHER DETAILS

Edges Length of loose selv.: 60 mm. Width of selv.: 4 mm. Length of surviving weft: 60 mm. Length of strip to which it is sewn: 80 mm. Selvedge structure: wrapped with yarn pairs, weak S spun. Structure probably, but not certainly, like 94.104, etc. Weft seems to be browner colour than warp, both in ground weave and selvedge. 3 bundles of 3 yarns each.

Sewing

Description The strip appears to represent a rolled hem, held in position by some fine Z plied 2 ply from 2 weak S spun yarns. Thickness of ply 1 mm. wool. This hem? is fastened to the main fragment by a stitch in coarse goat hair. Structure uncertain, but looks like Z ply. This amalgamation probably represents work on site at Berenike. Sewing yarn fibre wool Sewing yarn structure plied Sewing yarn twist direction Z2s Sewing yarn diam 1.0 Sewing yarn 2 fibre goat hair

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