Yoruba Ashoke Textile 8, Nigeria


 

Photographs © Tim Hamill

YORUBA, Ashoke Textile 8, 80x57", $150, Nigeria

Woven in narrow strips of machine-spun cotton, these textiles have sections of openwork, with the holes linked by decorative, carry-over threads. Motifs laid in by weft patterns often symbolize stylized plants or Koran boards.

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