parallel yarns, as in No.
10, with an interspace of 3/8" (10 mm.) All the warp
yarns are dyed red, about 25% of them being doubled; the
weft is peculiar in having five or six strands of single
yarns alternating with six or seven double yarns, giving
a faint stripe in the fabric.

12. A linen cloth, with no selvedge edge. It has been
dyed red, probably _ferum_, a dye which I find uniformly
associated with friable or decomposing fibres.

13. A peculiarly coloured fine linen cloth; the pattern
is caused by some of the warp yarns being dyed, and
occurring sometimes of four, two, or one red strands,
with grey ones intermixed. A few of the warp yarns are
doubled. The weft is composed of single yarns and are
all in the grey.

14. A coarse soft-woven linen fabric, containing no
size. Lines are indicated at irregular distances along
the cloth, varying from 5/16" to 9/16" (8 to 14 mm.);
these are caused by the introduction of three strands of
doubled yarn in the warp while the remainder are single
yarns. The weft is all of doubled yarns; both warp and
weft are very regular in diameter.

15. This is a variegated linen fabric with warps
coloured something like No. 13, but the red strands of
warp are more irregular in distribution. Like it, a few
of the warp yarns are doubled, both the red and the
grey; while the weft is all of single yarns and in the
grey."

[A considerable quantity of specimens of the cloths which were woven
by the Ancient Egyptians has been examined both in this country and
abroad. I may, however, call special attention to the results of
examination published in Miss M. A. Murray's excellent little work
_The Tomb of Two Brothers_, Manchester Museum Publications, No. 68,
1910.--H.L.R.]

DETAILS OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE BODY WRAPPINGS.

--------+-------+-----+-----++-----------------------------------------
Specimen|Nature |Warp |Weft || Micro Measurements of Ten Fibres.
No. | of |Ends |Picks|+-------------+-------------+-------------
|Textile|per |per || Weft. | Warp. | Mean of.
| Fibre.|inch.|inch.|+======+======+======+======+======+======
| | | || Max. | Min. | Max. | Min. | Weft.| Warp.
========+=======+=====+=====++======+======+======+======+======+======
| | | || in. | in. | in. | in. | in.