Pile rug fragment, Near East, 700-1200. Found in Fustat. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Size: 29.5 x 14 cm

NM 215/1939

Warp: yellowish, one ply, z spun

Weft: yellowish, one ply, z-spun, 5 wefts between every row of knots

Pile: one ply, z pun, inserted in the same shed as every fifth weft, pulled out in loops, later cut.

Knots: 25V x 80H

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

Found in Fostat, Egypt