Display Cloth (kpokpo)

Against blocks of un-dyed cotton, black stripes of varying widths are complemented by yellow bars and judiciously incorporated red threads as accents. With a limited palette, the weaver has improvised upon an overall checkerboard theme that exploits the cloth’s underlying structure of woven strips. Woven by men on narrow-strip looms from yarns of locally grown cotton that were handspun by women, the cloth bands were sewn together to form a whole cloth. A checkerboard pattern results from careful alignment of the bands.