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3. Compare the size
of Africa with
USA
India
Mexico
China
Spain, Portugal,
France and Italy
4. The world's second
most populous
continent
More than 1 billion
people
Fifty three countries
Two thousand
languages
Homo Sapiens
originated in East
Africa - 100,000 200,000 years ago.
Around 40,000 years
ago, they migrated
to other parts of the
world.
6. Whether made locally or
imported, Africans use
textiles of various colors,
shapes and designs for daily
or ceremonial clothing, as
shrouds for the dead or as
furnishing fabrics for the
interior of their residences.
Such garments indicate a
person's status and fashion
flair, but may also be worn as
protection from negative
forces.
Photo: http://www.annspottery.com/travels/ghana96.php
7. In different parts of the
continent, people have used
plant fibers, the wool of sheep
and camels and the bark of
trees, to weave beautiful
clothes, bedding, tents and
cloth for carrying goods and
babies.
They have invented many
looms for weaving, and used
many techniques for adding
patterns to the cloth. Today,
many African use these
traditional methods, while
others use machine-made
cloth.
Photo: Grace Ndiritu
8. fall into three categories:
woven, dyed, and printed
or painted.
In many woven fabrics,
like kente cloth, narrow
hand-loomed bands are
joined together.
Woven Kente cloth from Ghana
photo: British Museum
9. A.
One traditional African textile is bakuba,
a pile cloth traditionally made in the
Congo of woven and embroidered raffia
that resembles cut pile velvet.
B.
The Bambara people in Mali have devised
a dye/discharge method of making
mudcloth designs using an iron-rich mud.
A
C.
People in Nigeria use cassava paste
applied as a dye-resist in wonderful Adire
patterns. A fine, soft material is also
made from the beaten inner bark of
certain trees and decorated by stamping.
D.
One of the most familiar and colorful
textiles is the woven silk kente cloth
made by the Asante people in Ghana. This
cloth is created from brilliantly colored
narrow woven strips which are stitched
together. These cloths were not cut into
dresses or shirts as Westerners know
them, but left whole, to be wrapped
around the body.
B
D
C
10. African clothing is adapted to the range of climates
and to local customs and styles. In the desert,
people prefer big loose clothes which keep out the
sun and yet allow ventilation. In hot damp areas.
people feel most comfortable with very little
clothing. And in cool places, they bundle up to keep
warm just as we do.
Photo: British Museum
11. In West Africa today,
factory-made cloth is
decorated in traditional
ways. Modern Africans are
proud of this fine cloth, and
value the hundreds of
patterns that have been
made over the years.
Nigeria factory prints – still
use a wax type product,
and have crackle lines
From collection of Dr. Heather Akou, Assistant
Professor, Strategic Director of Design + Culture
Member of the African Studies and Graduate faculty at
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
12. Adinkra is a printed or
stamped traditional cloth
made by the Ashanti people in
Ghana.
The centre of production is
the village of Ntonso, where
the cloth has been made for a
long time, though no-one
knows how long.
When the printers are asked,
they say, "we Ashanti don't
use dates or numbers. It was a
long, long time ago.“
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/o
ntheline/schools/adinkra/adinkra.htm
13. Asante people of Ghana in West Africa make a cloth called adinkra. This
involves hand printing patterns onto cloth.
First the printer makes a grid pattern with dye on the cloth using a
comb-like tool. Then it is decorated by stamping the squares with shapes
and symbols with special meanings.
They make the stamps from the calabash shell - a type of gourd or hard
shelled fruit.
They boil the bark of a tree with iron slag to make a dark dye.
The stamps are then dipped into the dye to print the symbols. The dye
dries to a glossy black finish.
Dark adinkra cloths (often black and red) are used as mourning dress at
funerals. The designs printed on the cloth have different meanings
related to sayings and spiritual beliefs.
Brightly colored adinkra cloth is called kwasiada (Sunday) adinkra. It is
used to make clothes for special occasions and everyday wear.
14. The Boakye family demonstrates, teaches, and sells
adinkra cloth locally and internationally.
For a demonstration, to buy adinkra, to arrange for a class, or for more information,
please contact Gabriel Boakye at P. O. Box 4, Ntonso-Ashanti, Ghana, West Africa.
Email: adinkrahome@yahoo.com . Telephone: 00 233 24 9977699
This slide and the following five slides are taken from the web pages and photographs
of Carol Ventura: http://iweb.tntech.edu/cventura/Adinkra.htm. (I am not sure all contact
information is still correct. –dbs)
15. To make adinkra duro medium (colorant), the outer
bark of the Badie tree is cut away, then the inner
bark is broken into pieces and soaked for 24 hours.
It is then pounded for about 3 hours in a wooden
mortar, boiled for several hours, strained through a
plastic window screen, then boiled for 4 more
hours.
16. The inside of a dry, thick-skinned calabash is covered with shea
butter for a year to slightly soften it. Then Paul Nyamaah
(telephone: 024345516 and 0243167605) cuts off a piece with a knife, draws
the pattern onto the outer skin with a pencil, then carves
away the negative space with a gouge.
17. Pieces of raffia palm are hammered into the back of the stamp
with a stone, then a cloth is tied over the ends to make a
handle. To preserve the calabash stamps, they are soaked for
a few minutes in hot adinkra duro to keep them bug-free
between use.
19. An Akan scholar thinks that adinkra means ’to leave one another‘
or ’to be separated‘ and this links to the use of the cloth for
mourning.
Akan refers to a related group of peoples in Ghana and Côte
D’Ivoire that includes the Asante.
Adinkra cloths are thought to have a protective function and they
communicate messages through their designs, which relate to
sayings or proverbs.
Aya (the fern)
Proverbs and sayings are a very important part of Asante culture
and are used in public speaking as well as in all kinds of art and
decorative design. When a person uses them to make a point in
an argument or discussion, he or she shows his/her wisdom and
cultural knowledge, and adds weight to what they are saying.
People may also choose designs with special meanings for cloth
they wear at a funeral to give a particular message about the
dead person or their relationship to him or her.
20. Wooden planks resting on blocks were covered with a 1" thick piece of foam rubber.
Several symbols (which have specific meanings) were chosen from an adinkra chart, then
Gabriel Boayke selected the stamps and Anthony Boakye decided their placement on the
cloth.
After the shedder cotton fabric (with a luster finish) was folded and laid on the foam rubber,
small nails were driven through the edges of the cloth with a rock. Rocks were also placed
along the edges of the cloth to keep it in place.
A comb (whose tangs were wrapped with nylon cord to help pick up the colorant) was
dipped into the adinkra duro, then pulled across the cloth freehand to delineate the sections
to be printed.
Although it requires practice and concentration, expert printers are able to talk on the their
cell phone and converse with onlookers while printing.
21. One edge of the loaded curved stamp was placed onto the
cloth, it was rocked across to the other edge, then it was
lifted and dipped into the colorant once again to repeat the
procedure.
22. Look at Adinkra cloth
design symbols and their
meanings.
Choose two symbols that
we do not already have that
have personal meaning for
you.
Draw or trace the designs
onto stamp rubber or an
eraser.
Carve away negative space
with carving tools or Xacto
knife.
23. Choose paper or fabric with
color of your choice.
Draw design lightly with
pencil.
Prepare ink.
Roll onto pad.
Draw lines using comb or
tooth-pick tool. Be sure you
think about the
measurements you want to
use so that you have
enough room for stamps.
24. Stamp Adinkra design in
pattern you have chosen.
Allow ink to dry. Iron to
set dye.