A continuous closed circle of woven textile for a woman's skirt made from cotton and dyed with vegetable dyes. The textile's maker is Eu Dane alias Ina Keraba Lodo. It shows continuous warp weaving. Since it is one piece it is called he kene. It would be cut into 2 sections and sewn together to form the skirt. One section would then be the mirror image of the other. The fabric is mainly warp-faced ikat. All ikat stripes are patterned cream on a red ground. The sets of stripes at either selvedge are made up of 3 repeated sequences. One set contains narrow black and white patterned stripes, known as 'raja wenyi'. These 'raja' are created with a floating warp. Between both sets of stripes lie a solid blue-black stripe, and the main ikat stripe. Its motif, called 'wo ketada pudi' or 'wo tada', is a variation on the motif 'kobe molai' or 'male kobe'. Tada refers to dots of indigo added with the fingers after dyeing in red. Here wo ketada pudi (pudi = white) means that no indigo dots have been added. The dyes used are indigo (blue-black), morinda citrifolia (red), and tumeric (yellow). [See original description 1 & 2 for details.]
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