Second research stay: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Any student of Egyptology would love to get lost in the
One of the key characteristics of Meroitic textiles resides at their very heart: before the threads and weaving techniques, it is their raw material – cotton fibres – that defines them as a unique textile tradition. Among the hundreds of textiles that I have been studying so far, up to 80% are solely made of cotton. As a young researcher first working on textiles, I did not pay much attention to that fact. As it was