Rectangular, tabby-woven, cotton sample decorated with tie-dye patterns ('Sabada' design) on an indigo blue ground. The textile (adire) appears to be part of a larger cloth, as both shorter sides, and the pattern appear to have been cut. The main pattern consists of 2 coils created by dots. The dots have been created by tying seeds into the cloth before dyeing. They surround a central ring created by gatthering the cloth and tying it with yarn. The spaces between the 2 coils on the longer sides appear to have been filled with chevrons also consisting of small resisted dots.
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