Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Ngwane

Title

Wedding Cape (Isibheklane)

Place

South Africa (Object made in:)

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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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