Adinkra is pride of Ghana...love it - we own it!...and every African should promote it in every way...be it fashion prints, teaching it down to our kids, displaying them on every surface possible lol

Mrs Ocloo was the first woman to produce palmnut soup in a can: Nkulenu. She is an icon.

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In 1969 I have been Exportimg African print fabric to USA.

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Please give me info about classes coming back in September..

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Thanks for sharing your experience, I love batik and tie and dye.

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Perhaps its unclear as to how long its been in West Africa. When searching it seems it has origins in Indonesia & perhaps Egypt. Anyway feel free to add any info as I don't know it all lol.

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We are not a peaceful country by accident. I don't call it bondage.

You see? But the Babylon asking us to wear mask and get vaccinated for their problems.

Please do they add water to the wax, why is so watery like that

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Batik is the use of wax originated in Indonese I cant find any articles claiming Egypt had a tradition of doing this The dutch developed the technique but Indonesia didn't like their style of cloth but west Africa did There is nothing to suggest this was a technique there previously Adire is tie dying they have a long tradition of tie dying then adding the resist was introduced Tie dying is believed to have started in china but became very popular in Japan I always think of hippies assosiated with tie dye

​@@bluebell3720 You cannot contradict people in a culture they were brought up in- Wax dyeing is extremely old and always existed in African and Asia. In fact the wax used in Africa and Dutch dyeing is an African lacquer which washes out of the garment with salt, as salt fixates the dye and disperses the wax. In fact ancient Chinese schoolbooks were wax printed, - the ancient form of silkscreen printing.

@@serpentlaw5961 Ok so explain why you think it was a tradition in Egypt When there's no account of it anywhere The only reference to African print west Africa was that it was introduced by the Dutch who learnt it from Indonesia The Dutch then introduced copper plates I haven't seen anyone dispute this I cant find anything saying the cloth is layered in lacquer

​@@bluebell3720 You are so undereducated. Linen and Cotton came from Africa. The famous volumenous Khaftans of the African Ife, Edo and Igbo were all printed with the pigments that the Europeans exported later to Europe during slavery. Africans did not walk around naked all the time. In fact Morocco also made creppe silk and the rich pigment colors that the Berbers use did not come from the Dutch. The Egyptian bamboo silk is the same type made in China, and the colors and the arabesques that are printed on them did not come from cheese-eating Dutch colonial incest. So, if you are hoping to find references in former colonial literature, you will search until you drop because colonial powers will never admit having learned print from Morocco, Algiers or Egypt (and these are in AFRICA). Moroccans are AFRICANS too, and they have Moroan admixture (from Meröe in the South), and their Black Califs wore PRINTED silk! The tiles in all North African mosques are PRINTED with pigments, and the same prints were used on fabrics. The printing blocks in North Africa predate Holland and the Dutch. Oriental Africa is OLDER than little Holland. ...not even the Benin Bronzes were known of prior to the recent exposées when private old colonial collectors had given them to museums after deceasing. efore that, there were no hints of African grand culture. Holland didn't even exist when African invented PAPER!