Bakhnouq (Woman’s Cover or Veil)
Amazigh
1900–1925
- Medium
- Wool, plain weave with cotton supplementary pattern weft, with indigo resist dyed threads (likely wool) and white supplementary pattern weft (likely cotton); embroidered with silk or cotton; with extended tied warp fringe
- Dimensions
- 88.9 × 200.7 cm (35 × 79 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
cotton (textile)wool (textile)silk (fiber)costume accessory worn above the waistcostume accessoryindigocabinetgeometricdiamond shapesafricandyeingAfrican Textileshead coveringcotton (fiber)Textileweavingwool (hair)embroideringplain weaving