Part 3 (1/2)
7 A coarse linen cloth, sized and brittle No selvedge on the piece sent Both warp and weft yarns are single, and even in diameter
8 This is a very coarse linen fabric heavily sized and brittle Both warp and weft yarns are single and very irregular in diah's: XXVI Dynasty
9 A soft-spun linen cloth containing no size Speci no selvedge About half of the warp is coular diaular in diae of this linen fabric is peculiar and soin is composed of four sets of ten yarns parallel to each other, for one strand of warp; then comes a space of 1-9/10” (48 mm) where the warp yarns are dyed red; then occurs three then the selvedge), followed by the general body of the fabric The entire selvedge is 2-1/4” (57 mm) wide About half the warp yarns are doubled, while all the weft are co fairly even in diameter, and not sized
11 A fine, soft, linen cloth, with selvedge 1-1/8” (29 mm) wide; the three outer and the two inner strands of the warp are made up of many parallel yarns, as in No
10, with an interspace of 3/8” (10doubled; the weft is peculiar in having five or six strands of single yarns alternating with six or seven double yarns, giving a faint stripe in the fabric
12 A linen cloth, with no selvedge edge It has been dyed red, probably _ferum_, a dye which I find unifor fibres
13 A peculiarly coloured fine linen cloth; the pattern is caused by so sorey ones intermixed A few of the warp yarns are doubled The weft is corey
14 A coarse soft-woven linen fabric, containing no size Lines are indicated at irregular distances along the cloth, varying from 5/16” to 9/16” (8 to 14 mm); these are caused by the introduction of three strands of doubled yarn in the hile the rele yarns The weft is all of doubled yarns; both warp and weft are very regular in diaated linen fabric arps coloured so like No 13, but the red strands of warp are ular in distribution Like it, a few of the warp yarns are doubled, both the red and the grey; while the weft is all of single yarns and in the grey”
[A considerable quantity of speciyptians has been examined both in this country and abroad I may, however, call special attention to the results of examination published in Miss M A Murray's excellent little work _The Tomb of Two Brothers_, Manchester Museum Publications, No 68, 1910--HLR]
DETAILS OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE BODY WRAPPINGS
--------+-------+-----+-----++----------------------------------------- Specimen|Nature |Warp |Weft || Micro Measurements of Ten Fibres
No | of |Ends |Picks|+-------------+-------------+------------- |Textile|per |per || Weft | Warp | Mean of
| Fibre|inch|inch|+======+======+======+======+======+====== | | | || Max | Min | Max | Min | Weft| Warp
========+=======+=====+=====++======+======+======+======+======+====== | | | || in | in | in | in | in | in
A { 1| Linen | 44 | 32 ||1/1400|1/3333|1/1424|1/3330|1/1768|1/1786 { 2| ” | 10 | 17 ||1/1786|1/3330|1/1780|1/2860|1/2020|1/1905 | | | || | | | | | { 3| Wool | 224 | 40 ||1/833 |1/2500|1/833 |1/2000|1/1351|1/1429 { 4| Linen | 64 | 32 ||1/1429|1/2500|1/1250|1/5000|1/1818|1/1754 { 5| ” | 56 | 20 ||1/1250|1/3333|1/1250|1/2500|1/1754|1/1724 B { 6| ” | 48 | 24 ||1/1250|1/2500|1/1000|1/2500|1/1640|1/1594 { 7| ” | 48 | 20 ||1/1111|1/2500|1/1000|1/2500|1/1408|1/1428 { 8| ” | 36 | 16 ||1/833 |1/3333|1/1111|1/2500|1/1456|1/1613 | | | || | | | | | { 9| ” | 48 | 24 ||1/1666|1/3333|1/1666|1/3333|1/2222|1/1860 {10| ” | 32 | 60 ||1/833 |1/3333|1/908 |1/3333|1/1724|1/1613 {11| ” | 80 | 36 ||1/1429|1/3333|1/1000|1/3333|1/1887|1/1784 C {12| ” | 96 | 40 ||1/1111|1/2500|1/1250|1/2500|1/1724|1/1695 {13| ” | 80 | 36 ||1/1111|1/2500|1/1429|1/2500|1/1640|1/2040 {14| ” | 56 | 24 ||1/909 |1/3333|1/1250|1/2500|1/1594|1/1695 {15| ” | 64 | 36 ||1/1250|1/2000|1/1429|1/2500|1/1724|1/1818 --------+-------+-----+-----++------+------+------+------+------+------
THE ABOVE CONVERTED INTO METRICAL MEASUREMENTS
--------+-------+--------+--------++----------------------------------- | | | || Micro Measurements of Ten Fibres Specimen|Nature | Warp | Weft || in Millimetres
No | of | Ends | Picks |+-----------+-----------+----------- |Textile| per | per || Weft | Warp | Mean of | Fibre| Centim| Centim|+=====+=====+=====+=====+=====+===== | | | ||Max |Min |Max |Min |Weft|Warp
========+=======+========+========++=====+=====+=====+=====+=====+===== 1 | Linen | 17 | 126 ||0181|0076|0178|0076|0144|0142 2 | ” | 4 | 67 ||0142|0076|0143|0089|0126|0133 3 | Wool | 88 | 156 ||0305|0101|0305|0127|0188|0178 4 | Linen | 25 | 126 ||0178|0101|0203|0050|0140|0145 5 | ” | 22 | 78 ||0203|0076|0203|0101|0145|0147 6 | ” | 19 | 95 ||0203|0101|0254|0101|0155|0159 7 | ” | 19 | 78 ||0229|0101|0254|0101|0180|0178 8 | ” | 141 | 63 ||0305|0076|0229|0101|0174|0157 9 | ” | 19 | 95 ||0152|0076|0152|0076|0208|0130 10 | ” | 126 | 236 ||0305|0076|0278|0076|0147|0157 11 | ” | 315 | 141 ||0178|0076|0254|0076|0135|0142 12 | ” | 374 | 156 ||0229|0101|0203|0101|0147|0149 13 | ” | 19 | 141 ||0229|0101|0178|0101|0155|0124 14 | ” | 22 | 95 ||0278|0076|0203|0101|0159|0149 15 | ” | 25 | 141 ||0203|0127|0178|0101|0147|0140 --------+-------+--------+--------++-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----
It is very obvious they had no scale to work to
FOOTNOTES:
[A] To the uninitiated I may explain that in a horizontal loom the plane of the warp is more or less parallel with that of the floor, while in an upright or vertical looles to that of the floor