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Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15141, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Alternating stripes of geometric shapes. Color: brown, dark blue, black, red, and white. Imprint on selvedge: "GRAND TEINT ICODI IMPRIME EN COTE D'IVOIRE." Length 178 centimeters, width 115 centimeters. From Niger, made in Ivory Coast. Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby. This example was made on Ivory Coast.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15137, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. 5 alternating stripes of flower designs and medallion (?) shapes. Color: lime green, purple, black, blue. Imprint on selvedge: "GRAND TEINT ICODI IMPRIME EN COTE D'IVOIRE." Length 1.8 meters, width 1.16 meters. From Niger, made in Ivory Coast. Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby. This example was made on Ivory Coast.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15139, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Burgundy and black unspecified geometric shapes alternate with black ivy design on yellow ground. Length 186 centimeters, width 111 centimeters. From Niger (unspecified). Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15140, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Design depicts storks flying over waves. Imprint on selvedge: "Sotiba-Simpafric-Dacar Wax Veritable." Color: black and blue on beige ground. Length 1.8 meters, width 1.16 meters. From Niger (unspecified). Context of use: Cloth is called "motif cloth." These are typical of cloths made in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Ghana. Peace Corps promoted this, sometimes introducing textile skills incorporating indigenous designs. Kanouri women would buy cloth in 6 meter lengths; 2 yards would become a skirt; 3 yards would be turned into a shirt-shaped long dress which would be worn with the skirt; the last yard would become a headwrap, and/or sling to carry baby.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15138, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Gold zigzags on blue ground. Brown diamond with plants and insects in the center. Garuda birds in all 4 corners. Brown wavy edge border. Imprint on selvedge: "GUARANTEED DUTCH JAVA PRINT" and "VERITABLE JAVA HOLLANDAIS." Length 1.8 meters, width 1.2 meters. From Niger, made in Java. Techniques: printed cotton, gold probably applied using stencil, cut from a bolt, probably used as a skirt, fabric made in Java.

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