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Guide to the seven files covering the Yoruba dress system, aṣọ òkè and adìrẹ technique in depth, the gèlè headwrap, personal beadwork, the aṣọ ẹbí group-dress economy, and contemporary fashion, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

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.

Sixty Yorùbá proverbs on cloth as the marker of standing, on clothing worn, patched and outgrown, and on nakedness as the condition beneath every covering, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.