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Large textile fragment; mainly red woollen textile, part of a mattress-cover, with long (c.8-11cm), looped weft pile; colour of the pile changing in vertical blocks from yellow-green to yellow to red; well worn; warp-red wool (S/paired/c.5), weft-red wool (S/paired/c.11-13), pile weft-yellow, green, red wool (S/paired), one row of pile after every c.22 paired main picks; one selvedge preserved with three groups of warp threads and an extra group of reinforcing weft threads; other edges fragmentary
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