Textiles



This page is about textiles. Textiles are a type of cloth.

Textiles in West Africa are very colourful and patterned. Some textiles are mad by beating designs cut on Calabash (type of tree) stamps onto cloth. Wedding blankets, the blue-indigo cloths of the tuareg and tie-die cloths are seen in Mali. There is also the famous mud cloth made in Djenne in which traditional or abstract design is painted onto rough cloth using different types of soil for clour. Mostly women do all the process of making the textile cloths.

This is a textile cloth from mali. citation: http://www.artisanatmali.com/images/tbog10.jpg

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These are some of famous mud cloths.

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