Mummy Cloth. Cloth in which the mummies or embalmed human bodies, taken out of the Pyramids of Egypt, were enveloped, the material of which was linen. This cloth is in the form of bandages wound round and round the body, sometimes to the number of 20 thicknesses. The stuff presents a surface of a rough and irregular weave, caused by the threads intersecting each other at irregular intervals. This old Egyptian fabric is imitated in various materials at the present day; the term "mummy" or "momie" being applied to the weave rather than to the material of which the fabrics are composeed. The "momied" effect is produced by using a fine warp thread and heavy weft, and causing them to cross each other at irregular intervals. By this means a surface with a puckered or indented appearance is formed. The weave was first used in a French all-wool dress fabric, but is now imitated in linen and cotton cloths.