A rectangular textile, comprising nine strips of hand-woven narrow strip cotton which overlap and are machine sewn together. Plain weave: dyed maroon cotton warps: dyed maroon cotton wefts: there are also pairs of bands of white and yellow dyed cotton wefts on the two bordering narrow strips. The textile is decorated with silk supplementary weft geometric shapes in yellow, white and orange. The textile is not finished by an intentional fringe.

This cloth is part of a group of West African weavings which can be classified as stripweaves. The cloths are made up by sewing two or more widths together, selvedge to selvedge. Uniquely in West Africa, the cloth is assembled by weaving very long strips on double-heddle looms. They are then cut into shorter length strips and sewn together to form a large rectangular wrap (see Gillow, African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent, 2003).