wrapper, kente

Created
Medium
cotton
Title
wrapper, kente
Type
Costume
Institution
Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Created
Created earliest year
1930
Created latest year
1970
Credit line
The Budd Stalnaker Collection of African Textiles
Description
24 pattern-woven strips joined selvedge to selvedge by whip stitching to create a larger cloth; top and bottom edges turned and hemmed by whip stitching; three variously colored and striped warps are present among the strips: multi-colored stripes (dark blue, white, red, green, yellow and gray), dark blue with white pin stripes, and white with closely spaced narrow dark blue stripes; weft in the plain weave blocks of strips with the multi colored striped warp is blue and consistent through out; weft in the plain weave blocks of strips with white and narrow dark blue striped warp alternates white and dark blue and is also consistent through out; in the strips with the dark blue and white pinstriped warp, the weft varies; in some passages it is all dark blue, in some dark blue and yellow, in others, dark blue and white; green and red; dark blue, white, green, red and yellow; red and yellow; etc., resulting in a variety of different plain weave plaid and striped blocks; plain weave blocks in all strips are interspersed with bands of weft faced stripes and checks and passages of brocading (this is a spectacular "weave sampler" of a cloth!); bands of patterning occur at regular rhythms throughout the variously warped strips, but do not appear to have been planned to create an overall pattern when the three differently warped versions are joined.
Identifier irn
irn-64858
Identifier accession number
2007.131
Medium
cotton
Provenance
(Kebe Bousseye); purchased in Bloomington, Indiana June 21, 2000 by Budd Stalnaker, Bloomington, Indiana; given to IMA by his son, Aaron Stalnaker, November 2007.
Title
wrapper, kente
Type
Costume
Extent
107 3/8 x 76 3/8 in.