man's wrapper; kente

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Created: 1900-1950
Created earliest year: 1900
Created latest year: 1950
Credit line: The Budd Stalnaker Collection of African Textiles
Description: 21 pattern-woven strips joined selvedge to selvedge by whip stitching to create a larger cloth; the warp in each strip is dark blue with white pin stripes; the primary weft is repeating narrow dark blue and white stripes of equal width creating a faint checked pattern (with dominant white warp wise pin stripes) when woven; these passages of plain weave are punctuated by regularly spaced blocks of three-units of weft faced patterning (in stripes and checks, including wide bands of marled coloration where two colors of warp are used together as one); the central units in the three-unit blocks have narrow bands of supplementary weft patterning on a striped plain weave ground (woven with just the dark blue weft); colors used in the weft faced patterning include: white, pink, ocher, teal, cadet blue, yellow, gold, bright green and some red; the weft patterned blocks alternate position between strips to create an overall elongated checkerboard-like effect when the strips are joined; top and bottom edges of the cloth are finished with a narrow turned and whip stitched hem.
Identifier irn: irn-64882
Identifier accession number: 2007.143
Medium: cotton
Provenance: Budd Stalnaker, Bloomington, Indiana; given to IMA by his son, Aaron Stalnaker, November 2007.
Title: man's wrapper; kente
Type: Costume