Part 5

No. 2 is darned work with linen white thread, very similar to the Italian towel No. 1 in Plate XXVIII.; the background is afterwards darned in with coloured wool. This is also from a Coptic tomb of the third century

No. 3 is a portion of a mummy cloth of the Eighteenth Dynasty, 1700 B.C. The linen is very strong and of a wiry nature]