Cloth

Description

Adire cloth, indigo-dyed factory cotton covered with white starch resist pattern of shapes and stylised figures: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ibadan, Yoruba people, 1960

Museum reference

K.2005.347

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Cloth

Production information

Unknown
Ibadan, Western State, Nigeria, Western Africa

Date

1960

Style / Culture

Yoruba

Materials

Cotton, Indigo

Physical description

Deep-dyed indigo factory-made cotton cloth

Associations

Depicted: George V
Depicted: Mary of Teck, 1867 - 1953
Mohammed
Depicted: Al-Buraq

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Picton, J. and J. Mack, African Textiles, British Museum Press, London, 1993: 157

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
world cultures, patterns of life