Child's sock
Maker: Coptic
Medium:Wool nalbinding (single needle looping)
Geography: Al Fayyūm, Egypt
Date: 4th-5th century
Period: Late Antique - Early Byzantine
Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.4 cm
Object number: 910.130.57
Credit Line: Walter Massey Collection
Not on view
DescriptionThis sock would have been worn with a thonged sandal, which is why the big toe is separated from the others. Our founding textile curator, Dorothy K. Burnham, wrote the seminal work on these socks done in the nalbinding technique. These were recently studied by Barbara Köstner, a Veronika Gervers Research Fellow, who demonstrated the making of such a sock for the ROM website and published her research in “Roman nalbinding socks from Egypt,” Proceedings of the 9th conference of the Textiles from the Nile Valley Research Group, 27-29 November 2015, pp. 172-195, 304-324.
Department: Art & Culture: Global Fashion & Textiles
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