Yoruba Asoke Strip-Woven Cloth

Tall and narrow, with white ladder rungs between pinkish stripes and some dark staining.

This asoke strip-woven cloth is Yoruba, from Nigeria, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is cotton. Asoke is a cloth woven by Yoruba weavers in Nigeria, traditionally worn on important occasions such as weddings, naming ceremonies and festivals. Portrait-format cloth in dusty raspberry and white vertical stripes, small white rungs forming ladder motifs along its length. Darker patches show in the lower half, and the bottom edge ends in a slightly ragged hem. It is 85.5 inches wide and 60 long.

Plenty of ladders, no one climbing them.