Blackish-brown woven insert from a linen robe in the form of a regular octagonal star that is built through two penetrating squares. The pattern of the border is created by woven in, strong linen threads and the inner area is decorated by a sewed pattern of braided bands in squares. At the bottom, a clavus that is narrow and ends in a round piece affiliates. The round piece is needlework on wool whereas the stripe is woven blackish-brown in white.
The Coptic textiles that are obtained in the Museum Ulm were acquired by the former Gewerbemuseum Ulm (Museum of Applied Arts) from the collection of Franz Bock (1823 - 1899) in the end of the 1880s. Dr. Franz Johann Joseph Bock was a cleric and art historian and travelled in 1885 and 1886 to Upper Egypt where he carried out excavations. In this manner, he set up a collection of Coptic textile fragments that come from graves. Particularly these are parts of blankets or tunics. The collected objects Franz Bock has sold gradually to different museums. Since Bock has cut his finds, normally only fragments from larger fabrics came into the different collections. Thereby it is likely that snippets from one and the same textile can be found dispersed on several collections.
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