Mossi Woman's Wrap / Skirt, Mounted

Stars scattered across a night sky someone sewed by hand.

This woman’s wrap or skirt was made by Mossi weavers of Burkina Faso, West Africa, in the 20th century, in cotton. Indigo-dyed strip cloth of this kind is commonly worn and traded across West Africa. The deep blue ground is dotted with white, five-pointed star shapes, arranged in tidy columns on either side of a central diamond of paired lines. The strips are stitched together, and the seams are faintly visible. Mounted for display, it hangs almost square.

About fifty-five inches high. Better than wallpaper, and far quieter.