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1900 by Charles 19th century Cotton adinkra adire aesthetic African art African cloths Akwete Anatsui areas Bandiagara Escarpment bands blue British Museum Charles Beving Collected in West color contrast created creative cultural double-heddle loom dyed Earth and Heaven El Anatsui embroidery example exhibition fabric Fulani garments Ghana Ghanaian hand-spun handwoven Hausa heddle Ibid Imperato inches wide indigo dye indigo dye Warp interlaced Islamic John Picton kente cloth kente textiles Kumasi Lamb London Lyle Ashton Harris Malian Malick Sidibé man's Manding Metropolitan Museum motifs Museum of Art narrow Niger River Nigeria Nupe panels Perani Picton and Mack plain-weave Provenance regional resist selvage selvage to selvage shed stick shedding device silk single-heddle loom stitched strip-woven strips supplementary-weft patterning surface techniques textile traditions tion trade vertical visual warp yarns warp-face wax prints weaving weft yarn weft-face West Africa width woman's wrapper wool woven cloth Wukari York Yoruba