Sample
Undyed sample of process of folding and stitching in preparation for resist-dyeing. Cotton cloth tied with cotton thread. The tied cotton will produce the design and after dyeing the thread is removed.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 284/1998/7
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- cottonindigo
- Common Name
- sample
- Simple Name
- sample
- Inscription Transcription
- Donors label: “The fabric is prepared for the dye. The pattern is made by folding parts of the fabric & stitching the folds, and by wrapping raffia tightly round sections of the cloth. Sometimes thread is used instead of raffia.”
- Production County
- Southwest
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Year Low
- 1960s
