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Luxury Cloth
Not on view
Instead of the technical approach of supplementary weft patterning introduced on the loom typically favored by Kongo fiber artists, here fibers dyed red, yellow, and brown were embroidered, possibly with a needle, into the loosely woven base cloth. The complex surface pattern consists of interlocking lozenges around central diamonds. The edges have been left unfinished as a fringe.
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