Kente Wrapper
Asante
1900–1925
- Medium
- Silk and rayon, twenty-four narrow woven strips with bands of warp-stripe plain weave, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, and weft-faced plain weave; joined; main warp fringe
- Dimensions
- 321.2 × 199.6 cm (126 3/8 × 78 5/8 in.); Approximate strip: W.: 8.3 cm (3 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- kente
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)stripeskenterayonasanteafricanzigzagsbrocadingarts of AfricaCoastal West AfricaAfrican TextilesTextileweavinggeometric motifplain weaving
