A one-page article by Cherilyn Nelson on textiles recovered in the winter of 1981 from the churchyard of Abu Seiffein, a Coptic cemetery in Akhmim, Egypt. It describes the site, burial customs, coffin types, and how bodies were clothed, along with the plain, striped and checked fabrics and a sheer garment called a shala. It also outlines how the textiles were handled, catalogued and divided between Egyptian museums and the University of Minnesota, whose Akhmim project made the excavation.