Description
Very rare early style of Ewe kente woman’s cloth that alternates two different very narrow 6 cm/ 2 1/2 inch width strips. This rich red coloured cotton purchased from British and German traders was greatly admired by the Ewe in the nineteenth century when this cloth was woven. Importantly this cloth alternates stripes down the length of a strip (technically “warp faced”, with stripes across the strip width (“weft faced.”) It has been suggested by African textile scholar Dr. Malika Kraamer that the rare combination of these two types of strip in the same cloth was historically a precursor to the later and more familiar kente cloth alternation of warp faced and weft faced sections in the same strip. Dates from circa 1900 and is in excellent complete condition (very unusually for early Ewe textiles.) Measurements 5’8″ x 3′, 173 cm x 91.
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