Kokerdoek
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Kokerdoek

1931

Fashion Illustration
CC0 — Public Domain
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

A longitudinally sewn tubular cloth for women, made of cotton. The cloth consists of two strips sewn together lengthwise. The upper part is black with some groups of narrow blue lines. The lower part has two transverse strips with ornaments, which are separated by a much narrower strip of brightly coloured transverse lines. The upper ornamental strip has on a black background woven stylized tree and animal figures in the colors white and brown-yellow. The lower ornamental pattern is completely geïkat and has mainly stylized human figures on a black background.

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