Pile Cloth
Velvet
Cloth
Textile
2003-52-98
From: Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 2003-52-98 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Raffia |
| Technique | Woven | Dyed | Embroidered |
| Description | A rectangular cloth with geometric design involving rectangles, triangles and diamonds, with a "line" of dark brown raffia running across the middle of the fabric in the filling direction. Many of the designs are formed with pile. The edges are all folded over and sewn. Yarn dyed; woven pile; "velvet cloth" mat. |
| Length | 66 cm |
| Width | 56 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1985.0.32 - Other Number | AE.350 - Other Number |
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