Thursday, August 29, 2019

"WAX," A SYMBOL OF AFRICA


THOUGH USUALLY MADE IN HOLLAND, CHINA OR INDIA, 
THE PRINTS DEPEND ON AFRICAN TASTES  

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The term "wax" comes from wax used to make Indonesian batik. The population rejected Dutch industrial copies...

But soldiers from what is now Ghana liked them and brought them home (toward 1900).

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The six-foot rectangle with no right or wrong side ties around the waist or is made into an outfit:


 
At the Eastern Station and the place de l'Italie mall (in the 13th)

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They can send a message:


"Stay away from my man!"


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