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Description
Totally 11 pieces of wool tapestry fragments, including 105, 106a+b, 106-1a+b+c, 106-2, 107, 108, 109, 110, 114, originally from one large piece. 105 and 106 are the two largest ones, from which, the pattern could be basically reconstructed, as shown on the layout. It has strips and lines of crosses arranged alternately. The strips are normally two wide green strips with one narrow red strip in the centre, but occasionally two wide red strips with one narrow green strip, and the colourful crosses are normally in red or blue colour, with additional green, blue, yellow or purple colours, resulting a form similar to a Chinese character, wang, meaning the king. The same character wang was found in a pottery jar at Niya tomb no.8, in 1995. The strips were woven in a common tabby weave, but the crosses were woven with paired wefts in a tapestry weave. There are seams on the 106 and 110, which probably show that the fragment was originally a garment. One line of cross pattern, appearing on both 106 and 107, was repaired with red tabby woven with spun silk, to match the original colour for this line, but the same line one 105 was with a wool tapestry fragment with check pattern. Weave structures: Wool tapestry: Warp: wool, S-2Z, single, white, 7 ends/cm; Weft: wool, Z twisted, dark blue, light blue, red, green, purple and yellow, single for the strips, 20 lats/cm, but paired for the crosses, 18lats/cm. Weave structure: common 1/1 tabby weave with continuous wefts for the strips, and tapestry with discontinuous wefts for the crosses. Spun silk tabby: Warp: spun silk, Z twisted, single, red, 16 ends/cm; Weft: spun silk, Z twisted, red, 14 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 tabby. ???105?106(??106a+b?106-1a+b+c?106-2)?107?108?109?110?114???????11??????????????105?106???????,?????????????????????????????????,?????????????????????????,?????????????,???????????????????,???????1995???8???????????????????????,???????????,?????????????106?110???????,????????????106?107????????????,??????????????????????,105??????????????????? ????: ?????: ??:?,??Z????S???,????,??, 7?/cm;??:?, Z?,?????????,??????????????,20/cm???????????,18?/cm;??:1/1??,????? ??????: ??:??,Z?,??,????, 16?/cm;??:??, Z?,??,????,14?/cm;??:1/1???
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