Linen in Ancient Egypt | ||||
| مجلة الإتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب | ||||
| Article 20, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014, Page 1-22 PDF (2.5 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jguaa.2014.3087 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Rehab Mahmoud Ahmed Elsharnouby* | ||||
| Lecturer Guidance Department High Institute of Tourism and Hotels-Abu Keer(ُEgypt) | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Egypt was famous through the Ancient Near East for both weaving linen cloth and the produced quantities. Cloth was sent as expensive gifts from one king to another and given to a laborer as wages in return for his work. Cloth was regarded as an essential element in everyday life as it could be used for everything: clothing, bedding, trappings for animals, or sails of a ship. It was in fact one of the most widely used item throughout Ancient Egypt. Although other textile fibers were used in Pharaonic Egypt, namely, sheep's wool, goat hair and a form of coir, the majority of textiles were made from the plant Linum usitatissimum, flax. Cloth made from this fiber is defined as linen. The research starts with a brief definition of the flax, and then reviews the scenes representing the sowing and the harvesting of its seeds. It also focuses on the way of removing the seeds heads, the preparing of the flax for spinning: retting, beating and scutching. After that, it deals with transforming flax into orderly lengths, and rolling it into balls or coils. The researcher as well studies the Ancient Egyptian spinning techniques: grasped spindle, support spindle and drop spinning; the different types of weaving: tabby weaves, basket weaves, tapestry weaves and warps-patterned weave and the types of looms that were in use in Egypt, namely, the horizontal and vertical looms. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Linen; Ancient Egypt | ||||
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