Zemanek-Münster

Two textiles

D. R. Congo, Pende
Price EUR 400
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Size
M: 63 cm x 50 cm (each)
M: 24.8 inch x 19.7 inch (each)

Description

finely woven raffia with a small triangular pattern in “kasai plush”, the edges lined with fringes

In the past, velvets were basically funerary textiles and were thus expected to be of particularly high quality.


Comparing literature

Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie et. al., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, p. 202, ill. 132

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