adire
- Museum number
- Af1987,05.10
- Description
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Adire cloth, composed of a four unusually narrow widths of imported cotton sheeting, machine sewn together to form more or less a square. After assembling, the cloth has been stitch-tied with a pattern of straight lines in both directions formed by strips of raphia stitched to the cloth to act as a resist and then dyed in indigo. The cloth has been hemmed by machine. The mark of cotton cloth producer can be seen on the back.
- Production date
- 1978 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 165 centimetres
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Width: 168 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1987
- Acquisition notes
- Af1987,05.1 to 11 were purchased from Mr C Robertson, and are recorded in the purchase book as 'eleven Yoruba textiles from Nigeria, made in the late 1970s by the Yoruba weavers' guild'. Six of them were displayed in the exhibition of African Textiles in 1979.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1987,05.10
