{"id":"akwete","no":685,"name":"Akwete","ja":"アクウェテ織","sourceSlug":"akwete","era":"late 19th century–present","family":"染織の伝統","kind":"スタイル","essence":"ナイジェリア南東部のアクウェテでイボ女性が発展させた織物。幅広の垂直織機と追加緯糸を使い、帯状に見える区画、山形、菱形、動物などの名を持つ文様を、鮮色と金属糸も含む密な面へ織り込む。","cues":["太い縦帯と横帯が交差して布面を区画する","追加緯糸の浮きで山形、菱形、動物などを描く","紫、橙、緑、赤、黒など高彩度色を狭い帯で切り替える","一枚の幅広布を帯織物のように見せる、内部の反復と境界線"],"intents":["高揚","高級","親密"],"pair":["kente","bogolanfini"],"study":["Dada Nwakwata and late nineteenth-century Akwete weaving","Akwete Women's Weaving Cooperative","named patterns, supplementary weft and wrapper use"],"works":["式典用ラッパーや衣服で、広い一枚布へ名前のある幾何文様を重層させるとき","織物、内装、出版で、帯の反復と追加緯糸の浮きを構成原理にするとき"],"recipe":{"type":"文様名、産地、織り手を小さく併記し、無関係な“アフリカ風”文字で置き換えない。","layout":"幅広の地を三〜五本の縦帯へ分け、横方向の追加緯糸で帯をまたぐリズムと局所的な図像を作る。","material":"木綿またはレーヨンの地へ、色の違う追加緯糸を片面に浮かせ、必要な箇所だけ金属糸の焦点を置く。"},"avoid":"幾何柄一般をAkweteと呼ばない。イボ女性の織り手、文様名、制作地域と流通を確認し、実物の柄を許可なくトレースして商品化しない。","colors":["#3C214F","#D96C32","#D2A53C"],"motif":"weave","collection":"Dictionary expansion 39","addedAt":"2026-08-23","source":{"title":"FIT Fashion History Timeline — Akwete","url":"https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/akwete/"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/akwete/","credit":"FIT Fashion History Timeline — Akwete"},"en":{"essence":"A textile developed by Igbo women in Akwete, southeastern Nigeria. Broad upright looms and supplementary weft build named chevrons, diamonds, animals, and apparent bands into dense fields of vivid color and occasional metallic thread.","cues":["Heavy vertical and horizontal bands dividing the field","Supplementary-weft floats drawing chevrons, diamonds, and animals","Narrow shifts among saturated purple, orange, green, red, and black","Internal repeats and boundary lines making one broad cloth resemble joined strips"],"works":["Layering named geometry across a wide ceremonial wrapper or garment","Using band repetition and supplementary-weft floats as the organizing rule for textile, interior, or publication work"],"recipe":{"type":"Name the pattern, place, and weaver; do not substitute unrelated pan-African display lettering.","layout":"Divide a broad ground into three to five vertical bands, then cross them with supplementary-weft rhythms and localized figures.","material":"Float contrasting cotton or rayon wefts over a ground weave, reserving metallic thread for a few focal points."},"avoid":"Do not call generic geometry Akwete. Identify Igbo women weavers, pattern names, place, and circulation; never trace an existing cloth for merchandise without permission.","study":["Dada Nwakwata and late nineteenth-century Akwete weaving","Akwete Women's Weaving Cooperative","named patterns, supplementary weft and wrapper use"]},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}