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Multi-colored strip woven cloth with floating weft design.
Textile (adanudo)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Textile (adanudo)

Maker Ewe Artist
Date1944
Place of originGhana, Africa
MediumCotton
Dimensions6 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft. 6 in. (190.5 x 289.6 cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineGift of Lewis Berner and family
Object number2002.31.7
Collections
Visual DescriptionMulti-colored strip woven cloth with floating weft design.
Strip woven, with strips sewn together at selvedges; gold, red, green, yellow, pink and pale blue; stripe warp pattern, varied weft patterns and floating weft designs.
Man's Wrapper (adanudo)
Ewe Artist
undated
19 panels, all hand sewn. Medium wieght all cotton cloth with orange/gold rayon overshot yarn to fabricate the kola nut leaf motifs. Ten yarn colors were used, in addition to the overshot, with colored warps and wefts creating an additional secondary palette of colors.
Man's Cloth (adanudo)
Ewe Artist
1940s
Navy and gray stripe with overshot color bands, 22 strip-woven panels hand-sewn together. Warp and weft threads dyes in 10 colors.
Man's Cloth (adanudo)
Ewe Artist
20th century
Strip woven cloth hand sewn at selvedges; red, yellow, tan, green and black; warp and weft patterns, some floating weft designs and openwork. Elaborate warp and weft patterns. Weft patterns include hands, fish and geometric abstract motifs that may be identifiable by experts.
Man's Wrapper
Ewe Artist
20th century
Strip woven cloth with brown warp and weft with gold floating weft patterns: tortoise, lock and chain for securing canoe, snake and saw.
Akwete cloth
Igbo Artist
1960s-1970s
Wide strip woven cloth with burgundy, black, blue, white and green floating weft; Ikat strips in center with blue and white dyed threads
Akwete cloth
Igbo Artist
1965-1967
Strip woven cloth with simple weave. Orange-green checkerboard.
Woven Textile (futa Benadir)
Somali Artist
20th century
Handspun cotton woven into strips, sewn together at selvedges, warp is white with weft design of black bars of varying width, not evenly matched
Blanket
Bamana Artist
20th century
Wall Covering (arkilla kereka)
Wall Covering (arkilla kereka)
Fulani Artist
20th century
Striped, multi-colored cotton warp w/ predominately black and white striped interspersed with orange, pink and lime green narrow stripes w/ brown bands on selvedges; cotton weft design in white cotton along the ends. Two pieces of equal width sewn together.
Lamba
Malagasy Artist
late 20th century
Dark blue cloth with rayon polychrome floating weft designs including alphabetic and geometric patterns.
Weaver's Sampler Cloth
Elizabeth Aderogba
c. 1973
Strip woven, simple weave; White with burgundy and yellow stripes on border; pink abstract geometric design; blue center stripe and elaborate fringe.
Woven Textile (futa Benadir)
Somali Artist
20th century

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