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Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)

A work made of seventeen layers of cotton and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed; beaded with cotton and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton and polyester cords.

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  • A work made of seventeen layers of cotton and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed; beaded with cotton and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton and polyester cords.

Date:

Before 1930

Artist:

Ngwane
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Ngwane

Title

Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)

Place

South Africa (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1901–1930

Medium

Seventeen layers of cotton and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed; beaded with cotton and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton and polyester cords

Dimensions

79.6 × 92.2 cm (31 1/4 × 36 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Memorial Endowment

Reference Number

1997.60

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