Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 4 objects tagged Igbo.

Narrow rectangular fabric, hemmed at both ends with red stitching, striped in white and two shades of indigo.

Loincloth (Nigeria), before 1932
hand-spun cotton.
Gift of Chinyere Okoronkwo.
2007-49-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A bright violet ground with an iridescent quality created by using magenta warps and bright blue wefts, with wide pattern bands of zigzags and geometric forms in shiny golden rayon yarns. Fringed at both ends.

Wrapper (Nigeria), 1960–67
cotton, rayon.
Gift of Chinyere Okoronkwo.
2007-49-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Dark brown cloth, fringed on both warp ends, with bands of supplementary weft patterning in yellow rayon. Bands of horizontal stripes, checkerboard pattern, and small huts, with a crocodile in the center.

Woman's Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century
cotton, silk or rayon (?).
Gift of Mrs Calvin W. Stillman.
1969-11-8

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Wrapper with bands of geometric pattern separated by four black stripes on a white ground. Pattern is a repeating figure of a triangle with three-pronged appendages.

The black supplementary wefts are thick and stand off the surface. The binding system creates black vertical lines in the white areas and white horizontal lines in the black areas, for a tonal effect.

Woman's Wrapper (Nigeria), early to mid-20th century
cotton.
Gift of Mrs Calvin W. Stillman.
1969-11-9

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.