Kaunakes

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A kaunakes was a woollen mantle that originated in Sumer. It was woven in a tufted pattern, suggesting overlapping petals or feathers by sewing tufts onto the garment or looping them into the fabric.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Kaunakes”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jastrow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.