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CODE# E378 PRICE Price on application MEASURES: 142ins x 82, 361cm x 209 A massive and superb early Ewe man's cloth with a russet brown background. Evenly spaced weft faced blocks in a huge variety of colours are set out on a chequerboard style layout. Beautifully woven and highly varied figurative and geometric motifs in supplementary weft float fill all available spaces between these weft faced squares. The motifs include birds, animals, people, sea mammals, fish etc, plus unusual geometric motifs. This is among the finest Ewe cloths we have seen in recent years. Cloths of this quality are now very rare (and expensive !) indeed in Ghana. Although structurally the cloth is complete it suffers from decay of the black threads used in some weft stripes and some of the float motifs. This is a common problem in early Ewe cloths and was caused by iron in the black dye oxidising. Interestingly where motifs have been lost an outline remains. See detail images. Dates from circa 1900s-20s. (c) Duncan Clarke, Version 3/07/2006 |
