1937, excavated under the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iranian Expedition under a concession granted by the Council of Ministers, Iran, upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Education of Iran; title transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art pursuant to the concession

For one of my Kingdom Arts & Science entries, I wanted to do some Naalbinding... using hand-spun yarn. I only learned how to spin with a drop spindle (I haven't yet learned how to use a spinning wheel, since I don't have one, and a drop spindle is a lot more portable!) this past summer,…

Spindle whorls aided in the making of thread by maintaining the momentum of the spindle. This red-brown bone semi-spherical shaped spindle whorl was excavated at Nishapur. It has a raised rim around its central hole and is decorated with four incised motifs of a large dot-in-circle, each surrounded by three small dot-in-circles and dots