Mud cloth

Vervaardiging: Sekou Traoré Mali · 1990

This mud cloth is made for the tourist market and is an image from daily life. 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 beige in colour (see M6-52). The stitching threads are S,2z spun.‖ The image is a painting of two women who, in front of a hut in the sun, are preparing dinner.