Mud cloth

Vervaardiging: Sekou Traoré Mali · 1990

This mud cloth is made for the tourist market and is an image from daily life and the role division of the sexes. The cloth is painted in a family context. The weaving of the bands for the cloth may have been made elsewhere. The weaving width is 13,3 cm. The threads of the weave are Z-spun, the weave is 15 threads in the warp and 11 threads in the weft and are beige in colour. The stitching threads are S,2z spun(see M6-52). The picture is a painting of 4 women carrying baskets. A person with a spear walks along. The border and corners are painted with simple shapes.