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Sun shade ABC [English wax sample]
ABC Company
1968
An 'English wax' fabric length made for West African market in Manchester by the ABC Company. The design is a classic of letters and numbers associated with school and children, and features umbrella...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. In this strip, the basic weave ...
Adire
c. 1963
An Adire cloth made of resist-dyed cotton in dark indigo blue over light blue. The cloth comprises two lengths joined with machine stitching down the centre. The ends are machine-hemmed and the remain...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1970-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist, dyed batik panel with selvedge on two sides. It shows three figures, in blue, brown and white. The figures are wearing similar clothing, maybe indicating that they belo...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1970-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist dyed, batik panel in blue and white, with selvedge on two sides. It shows four figures inside a border of repeated semi-circles. The figures may be those of two males a...
Jubilee Adire
c. 1963
A resist-dyed cotton Adire fragment in dark blue indigo over light blue. It is machine-hemmed on one edge, with the other edges left raw. The central motif is of a male and female figure set within a ...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1970-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist dyed batik panel in red, yellow and maroon, with a zig-zag border and selvedge on two sides. It shows four people, probably from the same family judging by the uniformit...
Jubilee Adire
c. 1963
A piece of resist-dyed cotton fabric in dark blue indigo over light blue, known as an Adire cloth. The piece comprises two lengths sewn together down the middle by machine. Both ends are machine-hemme...
Yoruba painted cloth picture
c.1976-1984
This is a Yoruba cloth picture, painted using felt or marker pens with pencil lines serving as guidelines. It features a crosshatched black and white border and a mosaic-like design, depicting three Y...