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Although it is not braided, a singular little object from Ruin 2 
‘may be mentioned here. It is made of a single continuous flat splint 
knotted about two supporting strands in the manner shown in figure 
43. Its length is 3 inches. 
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Cotton.—Rags of cotton cloth were found in the rubbish of every 
ruin excavated; none of them, however, were large enough to give 
any idea as to the nature of the garments of which they once formed 
parts or of the original size of the pieces of fabric. The specimens 
are of two kinds, the plain and the striped, the former much the 
more abundant. The thread of both warp and weft of all the speci- 
mens is single-strand and loosely twisted. Thread for binding and 
sewing is somewhat stouter and is always two or three strand. 
Plain cloth is made in the simple checkerboard weave (pl. 46, a@) and 
is of two classes—that in which the warp and weft are of equal thick- 
ness, and that in 
which the weft 
is much heavier 
than the warp. 
As is shown in 
the accompany- 
ing table of Fig. 43.—Twined splint. 
elements to the 
inch in a series of 26 specimens chosen at random, the examples 
within the groups differ from each other only in fineness of 
weave. It will be noticed also that the heavy weft cloth averages 
somewhat coarser than that in which the warp and weft are of 
equal weight. 
EQUAL WARP AND WEFT HEAVY WEFT 
Warps Wefts Examples Warps Wefts Examples 
20 24 1 16 20 it 
24 24 1 20 24 2 
24 28 4 24 24 4 
28 o2 5) 24 28 2. 
28 36 2 28 2 it 
32 d4 il 28 32 1 
32 56 1 
36) 9,40 2 
Of striped cloth we have only two specimens; the weave in both 
cases is twilled, in one it is over two under two, in the other over two 
under one. The former (A—1620, Ruin 8) has alternate stripes of 
