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 13,2 cm. The threads of the weave are Z-spun, the weave is 15 threads in the warp and 15 threads in the weft and beige in colour (see M6-52). The stitching threads are S,2z spun(see M6-52). The image is a painting of three male fishermen working with traps in the sun and a dotted sky. The cloth has simple corner and edge decoration.