A long, rectangular coarse wool textile. It has alternating sets of warp dominant stripes. A black stripe has in its centre a pink stripe flanked by a white dotted line. This black stripe alternates with a pink stripe flanked by a narrow black stripe and a wider orange stripe. (Some of the warp ends are broken.) The warp ends are uncut and have twisted back on themselves. (A continuous warp was used for weaving.) There is orange and pink weft twining at each end and two separate rows of black and white weft twining nearby. The ends of the twining are dyed a pale orange, seemingly dip dyed afterwards. Both orange and pink dyes appear to be artificial dyes.
textile (function unknown)
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