History, design, and craft in West African strip-woven cloth
Subtitle: papers presented at a symposium organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988
By: [contributors, Rita Bolland ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bolland, Rita.; National Museum of African Art.
Publisher: The Museum
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Textile fabrics, Black -- Africa, West -- Congresses.; West African strip weaving -- Congresses.; Hand weaving -- Africa, West -- Congresses.; Men weavers -- Africa, West -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Contents, Foreword / Sylvia H. Williams; value: Introduction / Roy Sieber; value: Tradition, technology, and lurex / John Picton; value: Clothing from burial caves in Mali, 11th-18th century / Rita Bolland; value: The eye, the hand, and the stripe / Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy; value: The cloth connection / Judith Perani; value: Traditional cloth from the Ewe heartland / Merrick Posnansky; value: The sociological significance and uses of Mende country cloth / Joanna P. Edwards.