Sunday 13 January 2013

Cloths with mobile phone motifs…

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Ewe cloth with mobile phone motifs, woven by Chapuchi Bobbo Ahiagble.

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Thanks to Deborah Stokes and Chapuchi Bobbo Ahiagble for the images from Facebook.

Seeing these prompted me to look again at the cloth below, collected in Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso in 2005, and the work of a Bwa weaver. This is the oldest cloth I have seen with a phone motif.

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