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A World of Wool Tens of thousands of textile fragments labeled Coptic are dispersed around the world in the collections of unlikely museums. Thomas, Thelma K. "Coptic and Byzantine Textiles found in Egypt: Corpora, Collections, and Scholarly Perspectives" in Egypt in the Byzantine World. TRADITION AND TECHNIQUES: WOOL AND LINEN To understand the origins of Coptic textiles, let's consider the pharaohs' tunics of fine, diaphanous linen. COPTIC DESIGN PERIODS Scholars recognize several periods of design that roughly correspond to what was happening in Egypt at the time. [Extracted from the article] |
