Sock

Title: Sock
Description: Earliest example of double-needle knitting. Made in North Africa during Islamic rule as assumed from the indigo and white designs that echo color combinations found in most islamic ceramics of the time. The sock was most likely worked from toe to top with difference in needle size accounting for the change in gauge.
Creator: Unknown Egyptian
Date: 12-13th century
Coverage: Old Cairo (quarter)
Type: Sock
Format: Plain stitch
Medium: cotton (fiber)
Subject: Socks; Egypt, Ancient; Coptic textile fabrics
Provenance: Joseph Abemayor, Cairo, until 1927; sold to H.E. Winlock for MMA
Rights Holder: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Photograph and Slide Library
Identifier: 27.170.95
Access Rights: Public domain

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