Sock

Title (Dublin Core): Sock
Description (Dublin Core): 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 (Dublin Core): Unknown Egyptian
Date (Dublin Core): 12-13th century
Coverage (Dublin Core): Old Cairo (quarter)
Type (Dublin Core): Sock
Format (Dublin Core): Plain stitch
Medium (Dublin Core): cotton (fiber)
Subject (Dublin Core): Socks; Egypt, Ancient; Coptic textile fabrics
Provenance (Dublin Core): Joseph Abemayor, Cairo, until 1927; sold to H.E. Winlock for MMA
Rights Holder (Dublin Core): Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Photograph and Slide Library
Identifier (Dublin Core): 27.170.95
Access Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain

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