Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 94
Count of Collection group
Top 10: Place
Count of People and organisations
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...