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The two Yoruba loom traditions and who works them, the named prestige cloths, the full range of adire resist-dyeing and the indigo behind it, the industry's collapse in the 1930s and its revival, and why everyone at a Nigerian wedding is dressed alike.

The Yoruba women's headwrap, its meaning as the crown of the female ensemble, its textile choices, its named tying styles from the 1960s onward, the modern professional gele-tying trade, and its central role in the aṣọ ẹbí group-dress economy.

Aṣọ ẹbí is the Yoruba institution of buying and wearing identical cloth as a family, association, or friendship group at a celebration, and the economic and social system built around that single act of coordinated dress.

An analysis of how traditional Yoruba dress signals social rank, political office, moral character, and ceremonial occasion through textile hierarchies and sumptuary restrictions.