West African Woven Textile Remnants upcycled neatly arranged on a card

neatly arranged on a card for tangle-free storage

all sourced from Japan and dating from the 1950s to the 1990s

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West African Woven Textile Remnants upcycled neatly arranged on a cardThese richly textured strips come from hand or narrow loom woven cottons, collected from a seamstress who works with heritage textiles to craft garments for both everyday and ceremonial use. Heavy and tactile, they echo the lineage of strip woven cloths such as Ghanaian Kente, Ewe weaving, and Yaruba Aso Okeeach built from narrow bands joined edge to edge to form larger cloths. Use these for textile study, visible mending, or patchwork that highlights