Yoruba Asoke Strip-Woven Cloth

Plum purple so deep that the white dashes seem to float in it.

This asoke strip-woven cloth is Yoruba, from Nigeria, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is cotton. Cotton has long been a principal fiber for Yoruba weaving, and the strips are often patterned with stripes, checks and areas of colored supplementary thread. Broad cloth in dark purple red, covered in faint horizontal lines with short white dashes scattered along them in grid-like rows. The right side shows small notches and a loose weave at the edge. It is 58.5 inches wide and 87 long.

Quiet color, with subtle accents tucked in.