Kente Wrapper

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Asante

Title

Kente Wrapper

Place

Ghana (Object found in)

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Made 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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg

Reference Number

1985.756

Extended information about this artwork

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