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Dorze cotton weaving

Also known as Dorze shamma

Dorze cotton weaving: photograph by Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Photo: Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Set the loom and weave stripes of coloured thread to a pattern.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Ethiopia.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Africa: Nile and the Horn.

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