thumb|Sahrawis|Sahrawi women wearing colorful melhfas
thumb|Sahrawis|Sahrawi women wearing colorful melhfas
Melhfa, also known as Toungou, Tassaghnist, Laffaya, or Dampé, is a traditional cloth commonly found across the Sahel and Sahara regions of Africa. The melhfa is a long rectangular cloth, typically measuring 4.5 meters by 1.6 meters, skillfully wrapped around the wearer's head and body.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).