Nubian cotton throw — red, black, cream
By Mona Hassan · Aswan, Upper Egypt, Egypt
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A second throw in the same structure but a different palette — red and cream stripes with a black separator. The red is from pomegranate rind. It is the oldest dye we use.
Three weeks. The red is naturally dyed with pomegranate. The cream is undyed cotton.
The person who made this.
I weave on a floor loom that my father brought from the village we lived in before the dam. The High Dam displaced our village in 1964. Most of what we had went underwater. The loom came with us. I weave the geometric patterns that are specific to our part of Nubia — bold colours, strong lines, cotton warp. A throw takes me three weeks. I do not make anything quickly. I have been weaving for thirty years and the loom still surprises me. If you want to collaborate, tell me the colours in your room and I will tell you what I can make that will work in it.