Tetela weavers used as many as thirty six shed sticks to create elaborate supplementary weft patterns. The cloths were used as loincloths by both men and women.
Description:
Natural colored raffia cloth with black supplementary weft in concentric diamond patterns.
Provenance:
Emil E.O. Gorlia, Belgian Congo, 1905-1927 to before 1977
Sandford M. Harris, Oak Harbor, Washington, before 1977 to 1999
Exhibition History:
Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2011-February 12, 2012
Published References:
Moraga, Vanessa Drake. 2011. Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, p. 47, no. 14.
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