HOME Africa  Albania  Baltic States Bulgaria China  Croatia Egypt  France  Greece  India  Italy  Morocco  Persia  Romania Russia  Serbia  Slovakia Spain  Turkey Yugoslavia Site created and maintainted by  Jodie "Jayde" Chabot (c) 1998 -home site-	6th c. Coptic linen tapestry woven fragment; part of a border, 4"x12".  Purchased by Nellie Gard	4th - 6th c. Coptic woolen tapestry woven border portion, 5"x14". The raised woven-in design and the button-hole stitched corner (at upper left) seem to indicate that this band was part of a garment. Linen was customarily used for garments and wool used only for the tapestry woven pattern. Wool was felt to be 'unclean' by the Egyptians, but it was dyeable while linen was not. Purchased by Nellie Gard	8th - 9th c. Coptic woolen tapestry woven segmentum, 5"x5".  Tapestry woven with embroidery or twined weft threads. Purchased by Nellie Gard
	10th - 13th c. Coptic (Fatimid Dynasty) linen tapestry fragments woven in colored silks. At this time, much of the tapestry woven work was incredibly fine in texture. Purchased by Nellie Gard	Egyptian silk brocade, red ground with garden pattern showing steps, and flowers.  A duplicate of this piece is found in the Ethnological Section of the British Museum. Purchased by Nellie Gard in the native bazaar in Cairo, 1935.