Pile rug fragment, Egypt, 800-900. Found in Fustat. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Size: 59 x 16.5 cm

NM 216/1939

Warp: cotton yarn, 3 ply, s spun

Weft: cotton yarn, 2 ply, z-spun, 2 threads in the same shed. Between every row of knots two wefts

Pile: woolen yarn inserted in the same shed as one of the wefts, pulled out in loops, later cut.

Knots: 40V x 40H per square decimeter

Published: Carl Johan Lamm, Carpet Fragments, plate 33, Uddevalla, Sweden, 1985

Found in Fostat, Egypt