Thanks a lot for the link, Ian, I´ve looked for this picture many times without succes. The specimens are very interesting, well woven and decorative. I´ll try to digitaly unfold one of them.

Hondero, this is very impressive. What do you use to unfold the image?

Anyway, now I want to compare this 18th Dyn. sling to the one replicated by Graham Cole, based on what I think is a less ancient prototype, also from Egypt. The weaving looks quite similar, except that Tutankhamun's example incorporates a kind of chevron pattern...

Again, good job.

Ian

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It has been rather easy, as the pouchs are symmetrical and in the original photo we have a quarter of the sling enough outspread, than can be replicated in diferent positions with a simple photoeditor. I´m not sure about the central dark drawing, that could be rhombic or a simple dark stain.

I find this sling most interesting because of its antiquity, almost 500 years before the Lahun sling, and its fine plait, just for a young Pharaoh. Also the shape is different. I imaging the dark zones are colorful and would be great to have a color photo of the sling.

It has been questioned sometimes the egyptian origin of the Lahun sling, that could have belonged to a mercenary in the Egyptian army, an even theese of Tutankhamun could have been plaited by a foreing artisan... who knows... all this is mainly based on the fact that Egyptians seemingly didn´t use the sling. Maybe an study on design would show if it is genuinely egyptian.

Thank you, Wolfshade,
But would you be willing and able to share the pictures at their larged format? What we did get was enough to make be beg for more.


Willeke

Another item of note is that this sling is now the oldest preserved sling on record, predating the sling recovered in Lahun, Egypt from by over half a millennia (c.800 B.C. vs. 1323 B.C. - when Tutankhamun died)

Here are slightly cleaned up versions of wolfs shade's images:





Chris

Wow, those are amazing pouches.  Going back to the first pouch, how would you make that?  I'm looking at it from a weaver's warp/weft point of view and wondering how you get the warp to curve in an arc like that on either side...  your edges would end up being far apart and the center compacted together...  You of course stated it was Plaited linen... how do you plait something like that?

I wonder what the strength/durability of linen is.  I've been toying with the idea of using some Cambodian silk I can buy in the markets here to make a sling out of to test the durability and feel.

Barak

That is ONE gorgeous sling!