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It is is a Nigerian hand-woven fabric from the Yoruba culture in Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Lagos, and the Osun States in southwestern Nigeria.

The way of making Aso-oke cloth has remained the same for centuries, however new techniques and production methods have been looked into to eliminate the weight and thickness of the Aso-Oke cloth, and to make it more accessible for casual wear.

These cloths are worn by men and women for various ceremonies including: coronations, marriages, infant naming and other religious activities; not that suitable for casual or office wear.

Manufacture
It is made on a horizontal and vertical loom; cloth is produced by a way of the extra weft brocading technique.

The manufacture of Aso-Oke provides many employment opportunities in terms of production: planting and harvesting cotton, spinning, weaving, laundering and marketing.

Motifs
Other ways that designers have made this old traditional cloth become more modern is to “structurally manipulate and combine animal and floral motifs into definite shapes of grids and geometry, suitable for computer design applications.” The basis of more traditional motifs would have originated from fables and folklore.
 * Sanyan type: woven from anaphe wild silk and cotton yarns
 * Alaari type: woven with either synthetically or locally grown cotton and shinning threads, sometimes with perforated patterns
 * Etu type: bears dark indigo colours with tiny white stripes noted for their simplicity.