textile;
sample
- Museum number
- Af1996,07.287
- Description
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Narrow-strip cloth sample (aso oke: 'cloth from up country'). Black cotton weft; warp design composed of black cotton and silver lurex stripes with supplementary warp float patterns in yellow and green cotton/synthetic mix (mirai). This is an example of the recently-introduced wider cloth strips.
- Production date
- 1996 (8th May)
- Dimensions
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Length: 11 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.144. All samples were collected by the vendor between 7.6.95 and 5.6.96 from a single compound of weavers, Ile Ekejo, in the Adesina area of Oyo town, in Oyo state, Nigeria. These samples represent one piece of each design woven in the compound within the year. Information on the weavers of individual samples or the looms producing the same samples are available in the Eth.Doc.
Cloths of about 10cm width have characterised double heddle weaving in the Yoruba-speaking region for the last 100 years. Since late 1994 weavers have begun to experiment with wider strips. Cloths with widths between 14cm - 18cm are included in this collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1996,07.287