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wrap
before 1972
Two lengths of cotton fabric with a join stitched down the middle, consisting of pale blue and red warp, with white and black weft. There are patterns of tufted threads in red and black cotton inserte...
shepherd's shirt
before 1972
A shepherd's shirt from the Fulani tribe of Nigeria. It is round necked, and constructed using narrow strips of plain coarse weave fabric approximately 13.5 cms wide, in natural colour. There is embro...
embroidered mat
before 1967
An embroidered mat, possibly for the tourist market. The mat is in blue cotton with a black stripe and fringes, with naive geometrical embroidery of stripes and triangles in yellow, white, red, grey ...
Aniocha cloth
c. 1965
An Aniocha cloth toga, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float patterns are in the form of weft stripes and geometr...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...
tie dyed cloth
before 2006
A length of dark green material with a large complex brown, yellow and red tie dye central rounded diamond motif. It may also involve wax resist techniques. The fabric has a woven damask design of s...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth toga, part of an outfit with a matching wrapper (ITC 2014.107.2), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth wrapper, part of an outfit with a matching toga (ITC 2014.107.1), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...
Bida cloth
c.1978-1982
This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...
Dutch wax style fabric
20th century
This Dutch wax style fabric sample has been rotary screen printed with a pattern of fly whisks, on a mottled background intended to reproduce a batik effect. The design denotes status, and would have...