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Textiles6
Archives1

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Nigeria4
Ilorin2
Antigua1
Bendel State1
Bendel State, Okene Colony1
Bida1
Guatemala1
Italy1
Middle Belt1

Archive File

Guatemalan leaflets, photographs and costume description

1980 - 1981

A small collection of papers donated alongside Guatemalan garments, consisting of a folded tourist map of Guatemala and Guatemala City; a tourist leaflet entitled 'Chichicastenango Guatemala' with col...

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Bida cloth
Textile

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...

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Okene cloth
Textile

Okene cloth

c.1977-1979

This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of a single pane...

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Textile

back strap loom and yarns

1980

A back strap loom in several pieces, comprising of warp threads holding an incomplete geometric weaving, with bamboo and carved wood dowel support bars and shed or heddle sticks or rods; a back strap ...

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cloth panel
Textile

cloth panel

c.1976-1979

This is a handwoven cloth panel. The basic weave is black with red warp stripes running through it. The panel features supplementary weft float patterns in a variety of colours (red, white, blue, yell...

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Aso-Oke cloth strip
Textile

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 ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

Before 1965

Painted abstract geometric design with small blocks of pink, pale blue and pale green on a black background, arranged to form black squares.

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