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Most examples of this type of textile in museum collections are the decorative parts only, and we have to conjecture what type of garment or cloth the fragments might have belonged to. \r\n\r\nThese double bands are tapestry-woven in purple wool and undyed linen thread on a linen ground. The design of the bands features running animals including hares and lions in curvilinear compartments. Some of the animals' tongues are made in red wool.","physicalDescription":"Tapestry-woven double band, possibly a sleeve band from a tunic.  It contains two bands of tapestry-woven purple wool running animals including hares and lions in curvilinear compartments, with detail in red wool.\r\n\r\nTechnical analysis: Plain or tabby woven linen with two tapestry-woven bands, in wool and linen.  Ground: warp in undyed linen, S-twist.  Thread count approximately 24 per cm.  Weft in undyed linen, S-twist. Thread count approximately 12 per cm.  Bands: tapestry-woven bands, slit and dovetailed tapestry in wool on undyed linen warps in groups of two and three (not plied).  Weft material undyed linen and wool in brown with a few details in red.  Range of 22-8 ribs per cm.  Additional details in undyed linen in brocading with flying shuttle.  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