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1613775979
Description
Cloth, a rectangular woman’s wrapper (of men’s weave), composed of fifteen strips of hand-woven cloth sewn together lengthwise. The strips are of unequal width, varying from very narrow to merely narrow, and employ five different patterns, two of which are completely different in colour and appearance from the other three. The white and blue yarn used is hand-spun local cotton, the blue being indigo-dyed. The red and yellow
yarns are imported from Europe. The variety of structure of this cloth is by far the most complicated of any in the British Museum’s African collection, and defeats any brief description. It employs a very wide variety of techniques, including supplementary weft, openwork, and a brocading of white over white: see the detailed photograph attached to this record. The ends have been hemmed.
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