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Akwuete cloth
c.1964-1965
This is a handwoven Akwuete cloth, woven by a woman on a vertical loom. (Akwuete is a town in eastern Igboland, southeastern Nigeria.) The cloth consists of two broad panels stitched together, with fr...
Aso-Oke outfit: head tie
c.1976-1984
This is a large, predominantly blue handwoven Aso-Oke head tie, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This cloth is made up of six narrow st...
tunic
Wood-Robinson, Valerie
A tunic with a high neck and patch pockets, printed in a yellow corn motif in the 'Dutch wax' style. This outfit was made by the donor from fabric bought in the mid1960s in Ibadan, Western Nigeria. ...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth toga, part of an outfit with a matching wrapper (ITC 2014.107.2), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...
dress
Before 2001
An indigo, gold and pale yellow tie dyed dress from the Delta, Nigeria, with machined embroidery around the neck and sleeve edges, which are lined with interfacing. The dress is cut from two large pi...
dress
Before 2001
A green and brown tie dyed dress from the Delta, Nigeria with scalloped edges and seam in yellow and green machine embroidery running around the seams and down the centre of the garment front and back...
Bida cloth
c.1978-1982
This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...
Bida cloth
c.1978-1982
This is a multicoloured Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It has sections in green, white, red, purple and bl...
Akwuete cloth
c.1964-1965
This is a handwoven Akwuete cloth, woven by a woman on a vertical loom. (Akwuete is a town in eastern Igboland, southeastern Nigeria.) The cloth consists of two broad panels stitched together, with fr...
Ishan (Esan) kilt
c. 1965
A striped and geometrically patterned black, red and yellow kilt, to be worn with a toga. It was woven on a vertical loom by a woman in the town of Ewohimi, in the Ishan area, northeast of Benin City....
Ishan (Esan) toga
c. 1965
This is a toga, woven by a woman in the Ishan area, northeast of Benin City in southern Nigeria, on a vertical loom. It was woven in three broad panels and sewn together, and has twisted fringing at b...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float motifs are in the form of weft st...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth wrapper, part of an outfit with a matching toga (ITC 2014.107.1), made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Re...
Aniocha cloth
1966-1967
An Aniocha cloth head tie in plain white, made in Ogwashi Uku in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. This is women’s weave; a broad panel woven on a broad vertical loom. There are fringes at both ends...
Aniocha cloth
c. 1965
An Aniocha cloth toga, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. The basic weave is in white with narrow red warp stripes. Red and black weft float patterns are in the form of weft stripes and geometr...
Aniocha cloth double weave
1966-1967
A white on white double weave Aniocha cloth with some drawn thread work, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. This is women’s weave; two broad panels woven on a broad vertical loom and sewn tog...
Aniocha cloth double weave
1966-1967
A white on white double weave Aniocha cloth, made in the Western Igbo area of Nigeria. This is women’s weave; two broad panels woven on a broad vertical loom and sewn together. There are fringes at...
Jubilee Adire
c. 1963
A piece of resist-dyed cotton fabric in dark blue indigo over light blue, known as an Adire cloth. The piece comprises two lengths sewn together down the middle by machine. Both ends are machine-hemme...
tie dyed cloth
before 2006
A length of dark green material with a large complex brown, yellow and red tie dye central rounded diamond motif. It may also involve wax resist techniques. The fabric has a woven damask design of s...
Adire
c. 1963
An Adire cloth made of resist-dyed cotton in dark indigo blue over light blue. The cloth comprises two lengths joined with machine stitching down the centre. The ends are machine-hemmed and the remain...
Jubilee Adire
c. 1963
A resist-dyed cotton Adire fragment in dark blue indigo over light blue. It is machine-hemmed on one edge, with the other edges left raw. The central motif is of a male and female figure set within a ...
embroidered mat
before 1967
An embroidered mat, possibly for the tourist market. The mat is in blue cotton with a black stripe and fringes, with naive geometrical embroidery of stripes and triangles in yellow, white, red, grey ...
Dutch wax type print
mid 20th Century
A strip of resist-dyed cotton in the "Dutch wax technique", which is machine hemmed on both ends. The central design is a foliate pattern in dark blue and green against a lighter blue ground, with pat...
Sun shade ABC [English wax sample]
ABC Company
1968
An 'English wax' fabric length made for West African market in Manchester by the ABC Company. The design is a classic of letters and numbers associated with school and children, and features umbrella...
shepherd's shirt
before 1972
A shepherd's shirt from the Fulani tribe of Nigeria. It is round necked, and constructed using narrow strips of plain coarse weave fabric approximately 13.5 cms wide, in natural colour. There is embro...
baby wrapper
before 1972
Hand woven cloth with red and orange weft. It is decorated by the use of tufts of black, yellow, blue, and white threads being inserted into the weave. The Yoruba method for carrying children involve...
wrap
before 1972
Two lengths of cotton fabric with a join stitched down the middle, consisting of pale blue and red warp, with white and black weft. There are patterns of tufted threads in red and black cotton inserte...
man's head wrapper
late 20th Century
A man's head wrapper made up of eight narrow strips hand sewn together and heavily dyed in indigo. This item was purchased from the dyer in a village outside Kano. These male head wrappers are made b...
Adire cloth
mid 20th Century
This piece of Adire tie-dyed fabric, sometimes known adire alabere, is created by tying small stones, woodchips, seeds or beans into the cloth prior to dyeing. It has been constructed from two smalle...
skirt
Wood-Robinson, Valerie
1960-1965
Seen here with the tunic (ITC 2014.18.1), a wrap round skirt with a yellow corn motif in the 'Dutch wax' style. This outfit was made by the donor from fabric bought in the mid1960s in Ibadan, Wester...
indigo tie-dye
mid 20th-late 20th Century
This sample of Nigerian textile was tied, stitched, and indigo dyed, with natural fibre tying threads still apparent. The cloth would have been beaten to glaze it. The design consists of two sections:...
Adire sample
late 20th Century
This piece is part of an indigo resist printed cloth (Adire) with a repeat design and border. The cloth was originally woven with a striped design in a complex weave, and been reused. The block prin...
![Lightening [ABC English wax sample]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/30723/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/671600_001.JPG)
Lightening [ABC English wax sample]
ABC Company
late 20th Century
A sample of English wax (often know as "Dutch wax") fabric length made for the West African market in Manchester by the ABC company. The design is in red, black, white, yellow and navy of striped lig...
ABC English wax sample
ABC Company
late 20th Century
A sample of English wax (often know as "Dutch wax") fabric length made for a West African market in Manchester by the ABC company. The design, in yellow, white, and blue, is of pencils, and noughts a...
![New Fine Trail [English wax sample]](https://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/30726/1.hashomepageThumbnailVersion/671603_001.JPG)
New Fine Trail [English wax sample]
ABC Company
after 1966
A sample of English wax (often know as "Dutch wax") fabric length made for a West African market in Manchester by the ABC company. The design is in black, red and white, and shows trailing leaves and...
Adire undyed sample
late 20th Century
A framed white natural cotton fabric with a cassava paste resist design, which has not yet been dyed. The design of the piece consists of four main squares: one square showing cassava leaves, another ...
tunic
c. 1963
A lady's black tunic with thick gold couched embroidery on the neck, sleeves and waist, and a tassel at the neck. This piece was made for donor in the 1960s.
Adire cloth
late 20th Century
This piece of Adire tie-dyed fabric, sometimes known adire alabere, is created by tying small stones, woodchips, seeds or beans into the cloth prior to dyeing. The Yoruba tribe of Nigeria produced ma...
Aso-Oke outfit: shoulder cloth
c.1976-1984
This is a large, predominantly blue handwoven Aso-Oke shoulder cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This cloth is made up of ten narr...
head scarf
Before 2001
An indigo, gold and pale yellow tie dyed head scarf. The piece is constructed from one long and four short fragments machine stitched and hemmed. The damask material has a small star patterning, and...
head scarf
Before 2001
A green and brown tie dyed head scarf. The piece is constructed from one long and four short fragments machine stitched and hemmed. The damask material has a small circle patterning, and the tie-dye...
grass woven cloth
before 1930
A long mat or cloth with fringing on either end, hand woven with cotton weft, grass warp and cotton selvedge. An accompanying exhibition label from the early 20th century states that the grass was br...
Agbada
c. 1940
This robe, or Agbada, has an oblong shaped body with very broad flared sleeves. It is composed of 48 very fine etu narrow strip woven lengths with light and dark blue coloured cotton warps and wefts. ...
Adire cloth
c.1976-1984
This is a large Yoruba Adire cloth, starch resist dyed, probably produced using synthetic indigo dye. This cloth is made up of two panels, sewn together. The two ends are machine sewn, perhaps to disp...
Okene cloth
c.1977-1979
This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) The cloth consists of two bro...
Okene cloth
c.1977-1979
This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of three broad pa...
Okene cloth
c.1977-1979
This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of a single panel...
Okene cloth
c.1977-1979
This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of a single pane...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1976-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist dyed, batik panel, with selvedge on two sides. It depicts two individuals, along with a variety of other items, inside a border. The items depicted illustrate various a...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1976-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist dyed, batik panel with selvedge on two sides. It shows a large bird on the ground, three smaller birds flying above it,and part of a sun in the top right-hand corner Th...
Yoruba batik panel
c.1976-1984
This is a freehand, wax resist dyed, batik panel with selvedge on two sides. It shows an anthropomorphised cat-like creature playing a stringed musical instrument. A smaller long-necked creature loo...
Yoruba painted cloth picture
c.1976-1984
This is a Yoruba cloth picture, painted using felt or marker pens with pencil lines serving as guidelines. It features a crosshatched black and white border and a mosaic-like design, depicting three Y...
Aso-Oke outfit: wrapper
c.1976-1984
This is a large, predominantly blue handwoven Aso-Oke wrapper, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This cloth is made up of fourteen narrow...
Aso-Oke cloth
c.1976-1984
This is an Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This cloth consists of 14 Aso-Oke strips woven by a man on a horizontal loom ...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. The colours of this strip are c...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This strip features warp stripe...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. This strip uses cream and sand-...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. In this strip, the basic weave ...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. In this strip, the basic weave...