VERY BIG PANTS

ARE A POWER MOVE

Hausa trousers, Nigeria. Cotton with imported wool embroidery, collected in 1966

African Textiles p 194

Nupe trousers, Nigeria 20th century

Textile Museum of Canada

Hausa trousers, Nigeria. Cotton with wool embroidery 1880-1920

Textile Museum of Canada

Hausa trousers, Foumban Cameroon. Cotton with artificial silk embroidery. Shown by owner El Hadji Amadou Yende a Bamum notable 1982

Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara p 351

REFERENCES:

J Picton and J Mack, African Textiles, Harper & Row 1989

K Schaedler, Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara, Panterra Verlag 1987