Vintage Korhogo Cloth West Africa 26 " X 36 " Tribal Fabric Painting Birds, Fish




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Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:847525Handmade: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: Cote d'Ivoire
Original Description:
This cloth is from Cote D'Ivoire or Ivory Coast, West Africa. It is 26" x 36" and the condition is what you see. It is rare, now.
This is great for a pillow cover face, or to be framed. Authentic.
I believe the birds are guinea fowl?.
From the wiki we all love:
Korhogo cloth is an African textile made by the Senufo people of Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Often described as being in the shadows of bogolafini (mud cloth) and kente, [1] korhogo ...comes in neutral and earthy tones like browns, blacks and creams. Korhogo is made by hand painting designs on hand woven and hand spun cotton fabric. The paintings are done using a specially fermented mud-based and natural vegetal pigment[2] that darkens over time, and designs are usually drawn on using a stencil.[3] They are decorated with symbols of humans, natural elements like the sun, moon and stars and animals, all of which are rooted in Senufo culture and mythology. The Senufo use the cloth as a shield against vengeful spirits by wearing or hanging them in homes/shrines. Korhogo is commissioned for hunters (important heroic figures) and rite of passage events like funerals/special ceremonies.Men and women are involved in the fabrication of the cloth. Both cultivate the cotton, the women spin the cotton into yarn and prepare the dye while men weave and decorate the cloth. Upon competition, the fabric is often used for clothing, decor and many more.
History[edit]This type of cloth came to being in the late 1960s and early 1970s and remains popular with tourists and urban Ivorians today. Eager to sustain Senufo traditions and help expand the local market, American Peace Corps volunteers encouraged the people to explore new means of clothing production. Fila cloth consisted of six stripes of cotton cloth that had been sewn together[4] and served as the prototype for which korhogo was built upon. Fila is mostly decorated with hand painted stripes as its primary motif and zig-zag designs symbolic of the leopard.[2] To preserve fila's traditional characteristics, Korhogo cloth producers continued to use hand spun cotton strips woven by their Dyula neighbors. However, unlike fila, Korhogo cloth quickly became the canvas onto which cloth producers painted a large variety of imagery derived from the local society and culture. The earliest examples of Korhogo cloth have fila strips which were used as the grid where visual motifs would be painted.[2] When the Grahams had coveted the cloth by the early 1980s, the Senufo cloth makers had abandoned the strips and used the entire cloth to frame the painted motifs.Symbolic meanings[edit]There are over 80 motifs[5] created by the makers of korhogo cloth and they create a story on the cloth when combined. Some popular symbols:[1]Guinea fowl: feminine beautyChicken: MaternityGoat: Male prowessTress: Sacred wood where Poro societies metChameleon: DeathFish: Life and waterFish bones: DroughtLion: Royal powerHunter: Mysteries of the forestSwallow: TrustCrocodile and the Lizard: Male FertilitySnake and the Turtle: EarthSun, Moon and Stars: The first elements God created



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