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Mud Cloth

Maker Unknown, Bamana (Bambara)

MediumCloth

Dimensions63 1/2” L x 38 1/2” W

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.1449.COP

DescriptionMud cloth composed of eight hand woven strips, each 5” wide, hand sewn together. Small fringe on top and bottom. Repeat design of bands of rectangles with dense crisscross lines and bands of rectangles segmented into four smaller squares with X’s forming diamonds. At one end some of the rectangles are framed with zigzag lines, and there are two rectangles each containing two rows of parallel lines.

ClassificationsTextiles

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