Gone are the days when our fore fathers and mothers cannot do without their native wears, e.g. Kampala, Aso-oke etc. When the world is becoming civilized, Kampala Fashion Extravaganza in this generation is being of good if youths are enlightened to embrace entreneurship skills and to promote and patronize the local content which had been left aside for long. Despite the amount of African wears produced then, today very little good quality adire [Kampala] is still being made in Nigeria and most surviving old pieces have already disappeared into museum and private collections in the USA and Europe. Unlike aso oke which Yoruba people often kept as a family heirloom for decades. In years back adire was an everyday cloth usually worn out in any occasion or used as a major outfit. Each trip we make in Nigeria we find it harder to source any good quality or old pieces at all. Traders who had ten or twenty pieces a decade or so ago now frequently have only one or two. If you are interested in these unique or beautiful textiles you should be aware that they are fast becoming extremely rare and opportunities to add classic designs to your collection will soon disappear altogether. If there is a particular design you want or you don’t want the culture to die off join the 2013 kampala fashion extravaganza There are different kinds o kampala designs: We have Tie&dye Designs, Batik Designs ,Printing Designs and systematical initiative Designs. In the 1920s and 30s adire a major local craft in the towns of Abeokuta and Ibadan, there were attracting buyers from all over west Africa but by the end of the decade problems over quality caused by the spread of synthetic indigo and caustic soda, coupled with an influx of new less skilled entrants into the craft, led to collapse in demand, from which it never really recovered. The more complex and beautiful starch resist designs, continued to be produced until the early 1970s. Today simplified stencilled designs and some better quality tie &die and stitch-resist designs are still produced. Good examples of the older styles, are getting harder and harder to find in Nigeria, and in a few years time these masterpieces of indigo dyeing may have disappeared altogether. That is why the Kampala fashion Extravaganza 2013 is set to sensitise youth of Nigeria on promoting and patronizing local contents Kampala is a great variety of fabric available for dying. It is done with an 100% white cotton fabric, which is absorbent and is closely to woven and has a smooth finishing. Adire is the name given to indigo dyed cloth produced by yoruba women of south western Nigeria using a variety of resist dye techniques. Adire translates as tie and dye, and the earliest cloths were probably simple tied designs on locally-woven hand- spun cotton cloth much like those still produced in Mali. In the early decades of the twentieth century however, the new access to large quantities of imported shirting materials made possible by the spread of European textile merchants in certain Yoruba towns, notably Abeokuta, enabled women dyers to become both artist and entrepreneurs in a booming new medium. New techniques of resist dyeing were developed, most notably the practice of hand-painting designs on the cloth with a cassava starch paste prior to dyeing. This was known as adire eleko. Alongside these a new style was developed that speeded up decoration by using metal stencils cut from the sheets of tin that lined tea-chests. Another method was to use sewn raffia, sometimes in combination with tied sections, while other cloths were simply folded repeatedly and tied or stitched in place. The basic shape of the cloth is that of two pieces of shirting materials stitched together to create a women`s wrapper cloth. Most of the designs were named, and popular designs included the jubilee pattern, first produced for the jubilee of George V and Queen Mary in 1935, Olokun or goddess of the sea and Ibadadun “Ibadan is sweet.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:27:44 +0000
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