A netela is a sheer cotton shawl spun from highland shema cotton and woven on a pit loom, left the colour the fibre came in — a cool, faintly translucent white. Everything decorative happens in one place: the tibeb, an extra-weft border laid in along the selvedge in cotton, silk, metallic thread or rayon floss.

The proportion is the whole idea. An enormous quiet field, one saturated band at its edge. In Orthodox practice the emptiness is not absence but readiness, so this system spends its restraint deliberately: keep the plane bare, and let a single stack of hard-edged woven stripes carry the entire voice of the page.