Object Number: H4239

Collection: Egyptology

Object Name: textile

Description: A beige piece of linen with a woven mauve wool sqaure in the middle. It has an intricate geometric design in white. The surround is cream linen with groups of threads woven in to form tasselled decoration. The central pattern consists of sqaure woven in purple threads with a cream embroidrery of sqaures and curls, this has a border all round in the same coloured cream embroidery in a wavy design.