- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Man's cotton sleeping cloth
- Long description
- Man's cotton sleeping cloth or bedcover, red, coral, yellow, blue and white in colour. Twill weave. Border is striped with bands. Field is checked. Wide bands at ends. Border is red, coral and yellow in colour. Field is blue and white in colour. Bands are coral and yellow in colour. Made on a 4 shaft pit loom. [RJ 7/2/2003]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 2003
- Date collected
- November 1989
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2003
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width 710 mm, Length 5360 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2003.9.168 Other numbers: Field collector's catalogue number: Textile 260
- Research and responses
Extract from 'Traditional Spinning and Weaving in the Sultanate of Oman' by Gigi Crocker Jones, published by the Historical Association of Oman, March 1989. On the four shaft pit loom, pg.35: 'The shafts may be of any number, but in Oman only two are used with the exception of a four shaft loom at Birka.'
and pg. 41: 'There are still a few cotton/silk weavers left at Birka (where there is one continuing the work of his deceased cousin on a four shaft loom which enables a twill weave to be woven), Quryat, and in the towns and villages in the Sharqiyah and the Interior; but they are all old men. ' [RJ 16/1/2003]
Extract from 'Warp and Weft: a Textile Terminology' by Dorothy K. Burnham, published by The Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. On Twill weave, pg. 154: 'Basic binding system or weave based on a unit of three or more ends and three or more picks, in which each end passes over two or more adjacent picks and under the next one or more or under two or more adjacent picks and over the next one or more. The binding points are set over by one end on successive picks, and form diagonal lines.' [RJ
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