Thursday, August 29, 2019

"WAX," A SYMBOL OF AFRICA


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

Internet, photographer unknown

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 reversable six-foot rectangle 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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It can send a message:


Stay away from my man!


Emigration

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