Projects - World Cultures Online - RAMM

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Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, Brousonetia papyrifera. The black pigment is made from a mix of soot and oil, and the brown comes from tree extracts. The colours are applied to the cloth through stencils.

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Two pieces of stitch-resist cotton cloth loosely stitched together lengthwise with raffia. Sections of the cloth are folded and oversewn with raffia to form the main pattern. Some of the raffia threads have been left in this finished cloth

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Dyed cotton cloth untied after being tied in the form of a 'Kano hat'. It is not known if this piece and the 'Kano hat' originate from their namesake Hausa City of Kano in northern Nigeria as this design is also commonly produced in Yoruba

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A single loom width of cotton cloth with raffia stitching over folded lines, borderd by tie-dyed circles. In the Yoruba culture all of life's activities have basic religious significance.

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Tie-dyed cotton cloth, still partially tied. Rajasthan, India's western most state, is famous for block printed, embroidered and tie-dyed cloth. The tie-dyed odhani symbolises womanhood and marriage and is celebrated in folk songs

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Cassava flour resist-paste was painted onto this cloth by hand before it was dyed in an indigo dye vat. The Oruba are famous for paste-resist work, the mothod used in making this example. Adire eleko cloths were first produced aroun 1910

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To make the pattern on this cloth, a line of machine stitching was made over warp-ways folds. The folds were pressed flat and weft-ways line of stitching were made over the folds before the cloth was dipped iin an indigo vat.