MAS.560

Description

Scope and content : N. XXIX. 001. a–d. Fabric frs. a. Fr. of ingrain material. Warp of thin brown thread. Weft, white, blue, and crimson. Pattern: a variety of chequer, forming stepped lozenges, blue with red square in centres, divided by stepped chevron bands of blue. Evenly woven. Colour fresh. White dis-coloured to yellow in places. 9¼″ × 3″. Pl. XLIX. With this, b. piece of bright pink twisted cord, colour very fresh, but strongest on surface. Length 2⅞″. Also c. fr. of dark red fabric, loose texture. Length 5″. And d. part of flat string band of goat’s hair, as L.B. III. 004. This example is of three strings (buff in middle, with dark brown on each side), sewn together with buff twine which passes horizontally through the three and appears in alternate stitches on outer edges. Fr. of fourth string at end. C. 13″ × ¾″.