Cameroonian Woman's Wrap / Skirt

Blue cloth with four white stripes and a faint grid of seams.

This woven cotton and indigo woman's wrap or skirt from Cameroon is from Cameroon, Central Africa, and dates to the 20th century. Indigo has been used to dye cotton cloth across West and Central Africa for centuries, producing deep blues through repeated dips in a fermented dye bath. Rectangular textile in mid-blue, crossed by four thin horizontal bands of undyed white with feathered edges. Faint vertical lines mark where panels are joined, and loose threads hang from the sides. It is 65 inches wide and 45.25 long.

A quiet pinstripe of blue and white.