Dogon Woman's Wrap / Skirt

Cream and blue stripes meet at a seam, with a corner patch joined in at the upper right.

This woman's wrap or skirt of woven cotton and indigo is Dogon, from Mali, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. Indigo is a blue dye made from the leaves of certain plants, and in West Africa it has long been used to color cotton cloth in deep shades of blue. Broad rectangular cloth with horizontal stripes in blue, cream and warm tan. A pieced section with a visible seam sits at the upper right and a darker blue band crosses the middle. The color shifts from cream above to deeper blue below. It is 52 inches wide and 65 long.

Pieced together with obvious care and no apologies.