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‘Atiqot 90 (2018)
ISBN 2948-040X
Textile Impressions on Mamluk Pott ery from Tamra (ez-Zu‘abiyya)
(pp. 163–164)
Orit Shamir
Keywords: textiles, thread, weave, industry
Textile impressions on the inner surface of two body fragments of a Mamluk-period bowl were discovered at Tamra. These were identified as the remains linen a cloth, probably used to cover the vessel during its production to prevent it from
drying quickly and causing the vessel to crack. These impressions resemble other linen textiles from the medieval period.