wanderer wrote on Apr 24^th, 2009 at 8:02am:


In the picture of the original sling, as well as in the picture of my sling, the pouch is folded so that the cords meet each other. Assuming my analysis of the original is correct, the pouch will also fold flat in half when the cords are pulled apart, and form an obtuse triangle. The loom I used shaped like this triangle. The warp strands go from the base of the triangle over the top and back down to the base on the other side. At the base, the warp strands from both sides of the triangle are held in place with another strand of yarn. In this manner the pouch is actually woven folded in half. Once the weaving is finished, the yarn holding the warps at the base of the loom is removed, and the pouch comes off the loom. This structure of pouch (I've come to call it a "Tut pouch") is not unique to ancient Egypt; I have seen examples from both Turkey and Afghanistan.

The American Museum of Natural History has two slings from Afghanistan with this type of pouch. There are links to this site elsewhere on the forum.

Here's a link to a Turkish sling with a Tut pouch:

http://140.247.102.177/col/shortDisplay.cfm?StartRow=1

It's the fourth one down the list of slings.

-Timothy Potter

Timothy,

a beautyfull and very accurate work! Looks great! Do you have details of Tuts sling?
Concerning the shape of the pouch I had the experience that if you weave tight and hard the concave shape will form automatically as the higher tension of the weft forces the material to this (at least this is my interpretation). The concave shape is missing at another sling which I made first without weaving it as tight.

funda iucunda

funda_iucunda wrote on May 1^st, 2009 at 5:18pm:


The only information I had to go on with this sling was the Burton photograph. As to the shaping of the original, I looked at the angle formed by the warp strings down the middle of the sling, which looks pretty tight. I think that using tight tension to make the concave shape would make a more rounded, smooth shape, rather than the crisp V that's in the photograph. The sling in Manchester Museum that David Morningstar posted pictures of on this thread a few days ago might be an example of what the tension does to the shape. All this is just my own theory, and I'd love to see others' reconstructions to compare results.
When I have the time, I'll see if I can get some pictures of the loom I made, and how I used it. But I’m not exactly sure where I put it. In fact, though I hate to admit it, I misplaced Tut's sling when I was taking pictures for my website, and it hasn't been seen for several weeks. So, I may have to make another, and that might be better anyway, because then I could document the process.

-Timothy Potter

winkleried wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 1:57pm:


Yes, I was talking about the difference in shape between the pouches on the Tut sling I copied and the Lahun sling David posted.

By the way, I think that there were actually four slings in Tut's tomb. Two of them, which I assume are the ones you are referring to, are in this photograph:

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/p1324.html

And the other two are in these photographs:

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/p0086.html
http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/p0087.html

This is the card with the description of these two:

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/021kk.html

They were labeled as a belt, but they sure look to me like slings. Somewhere on the forum I saw pictures of these in a museum display.

-Timothy Potter

I had another look at the Manchester museum sling today. By taking out a sling of my own and reproducing all the bends and loops of the original cord I got a length of 23 inches for the retention cord, not including the pouch, which I guesstimate to be 6" x2". The retention loop is so  tiny I can only surmise it was used as a slipknot with the retention cord pushed through it.

Badger, If this is the same sling I am thinking of, it is what I call Lahun I in my ground school class.

Wil try and get ya pics either tonight or tomorrow night

Marc Adkins

slingbadger wrote on Feb 7^th, 2010 at 7:00pm:

Do you know what is it made of? Some kind of grass?