Aso-Oke in the style of the late 1970s, which copies the aesthetics of industrial embroidery fabrics onto the handwoven fabric strips:
<p>left: Four-piece ladies' costume with Aso Oke embroidered with a chain stitch; Southwest Nigeria, late 1970s; Costume parts made of narrow-band cotton strips, decorated with a machine chain stitch in cotton lurex yarn; World Museum Vienna, inv. No. 187,553 a, b, c, d
</p><p>right: Four-piece ladies' costume with Aso Oke embroidered with a chain stitch; Southwest Nigeria, late 1970s; Costume parts composed of cotton narrow strips, decorated with machine chain stitch in cotton yarn; World Museum Vienna, inv. No. 188,503 a, b, c
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Photographed in the exhibition Lustenau Lagos African Lace in the Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz
Wolf D.
<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>