Woman's Overskirt
Kuba
1801–1900
- Medium
- Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches
- Dimensions
- 162.1 × 72.2 cm (63 3/4 × 28 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
geometricclothingafricankuba (democratic republic of congo stylearts of Africadress (garment)raffiaAfrican Textileskuba kingdomneedlework (visual works)costumeTextileembroideringplain weaving
