Period:Unknown Production date:2000s
Materials:cotton
Technique:printed
Subjects:flower leaf bird animal
Dimensions:Length: 254 centimetres Width: 116.50 centimetres
Description:
Printed cotton cloth; imitation wax-resist-dyed cloth. Red cloth printed with green border with red and blue flowers outlined in gold top and bottom; main repeating pattern white and blue flowers with green leaves and stems and red and blue birds alternating with vertical band with green diamonds (with red animals in centre) down centre, white and burgundy alternating triangles down sides.
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![图片[1]-cloth BM-Af2006-15.18-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00226156_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-cloth BM-Af2006-15.18-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00226157_001.jpg)
Comments:See Collection File: Af2006,15.1-241. Twi name of pattern: “AABEE MAKOLA/PRA WO FIE”, translated “They are coming Makola – sweep (clean) your home”. Serving as a reminder to people to maintain a clean environment. The textile is associated with community health inspections at Makola market, Accra and at individual homes. The technique of wax-printing is inspired by the Indonesian art of batik. Both methods use was a dyed to form designs on cotton cloth. Batik was probably brought to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the mid-1800s by soldiers serving in the Dutch Army in Java.In 1893, an enterprising Scottish trader, Ebenezer Brown Fleming, began importing wax-printed cloth from the Netherlands to the Gold Coast. The product became very popular and spread throughout west and central Africa.Wax prints were produced across Europe and exported to Africa, with African customers driving the trade. Since the 1960s factories have been established in Ghana and other African countries from Senegal to the Congo. Today, all of the European factories have closed down, with the exception of Vlisco in the Netherlands. The Manchester-based factory ABC (Arthur Brunnschweiler and Company) transferred its UK production to its Ghanaian sister company Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) in 2007. However ABC designers in Manchester continue to create patterns for the African wax print factories and visit local markets to gain inspiration and market feedback. Increasingly, imitation wax prints made in China are being marketed in Africa where their relatively modest cost makes them popular additions to the local textile trade. The designs are often inspired by or copied from original wax resist-dyed cloths produced by European textile companies such as Vlisco and ABC.
Materials:cotton
Technique:printed
Subjects:flower leaf bird animal
Dimensions:Length: 254 centimetres Width: 116.50 centimetres
Description:
Printed cotton cloth; imitation wax-resist-dyed cloth. Red cloth printed with green border with red and blue flowers outlined in gold top and bottom; main repeating pattern white and blue flowers with green leaves and stems and red and blue birds alternating with vertical band with green diamonds (with red animals in centre) down centre, white and burgundy alternating triangles down sides.
IMG
Comments:See Collection File: Af2006,15.1-241. Twi name of pattern: “AABEE MAKOLA/PRA WO FIE”, translated “They are coming Makola – sweep (clean) your home”. Serving as a reminder to people to maintain a clean environment. The textile is associated with community health inspections at Makola market, Accra and at individual homes. The technique of wax-printing is inspired by the Indonesian art of batik. Both methods use was a dyed to form designs on cotton cloth. Batik was probably brought to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the mid-1800s by soldiers serving in the Dutch Army in Java.In 1893, an enterprising Scottish trader, Ebenezer Brown Fleming, began importing wax-printed cloth from the Netherlands to the Gold Coast. The product became very popular and spread throughout west and central Africa.Wax prints were produced across Europe and exported to Africa, with African customers driving the trade. Since the 1960s factories have been established in Ghana and other African countries from Senegal to the Congo. Today, all of the European factories have closed down, with the exception of Vlisco in the Netherlands. The Manchester-based factory ABC (Arthur Brunnschweiler and Company) transferred its UK production to its Ghanaian sister company Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) in 2007. However ABC designers in Manchester continue to create patterns for the African wax print factories and visit local markets to gain inspiration and market feedback. Increasingly, imitation wax prints made in China are being marketed in Africa where their relatively modest cost makes them popular additions to the local textile trade. The designs are often inspired by or copied from original wax resist-dyed cloths produced by European textile companies such as Vlisco and ABC.
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