III.5.5. TEXTILES AND TAILORS

MENU:  3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors

TEXTILES ARE EASY TO PRODUCE AND TRANSPORT, DO NOT BREAK OR SPOIL AND DEMAND FOR THEM IS INFINITE

 

Like coiffures, they drive the « looks » that bring shops, tailors and inspiration from African roots.

 K.H. Afrique Mode
77 rue Doudeauville

Bazin de Fouta

20 rue Polonceau

Kumasi market

39bis, rue Doudeauville 

Textiles and their ramifications

• "Wax," a symbol of Africa

• Start at the textile hub next door and stroll down the slope

• Stores almost as omnipresent as the barber shops

• Shops for notions follow the textiles

• Young tailors' energy

• Embroidery, a royal ornamentation

• Plebeian prints gain their letters of nobility

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"Wax," a symbol of Africa

"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...

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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 Cartier Fondation 

 

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!"

Emigration

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Worn throughout sub-Saharan Africa and outside it almost only by Africans, wax recently appeared...

• In an art gallery photo...

In Saint-Germain des Près, known for its galleries of contemporary art

• At the Louvre...

At la Goutte d'Or

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From the textile hub next door

and stroll down the slope

START AT THE TEXTILE HUB NEXT DOOR AND STROLL DOWN THE HILL

THE MARCHÉ (market) SAINT PIERRE SELLS EVERYTHING LINKED TO SEWING

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Contrast it with La Goutte d'Or, across boulevard Barbès.

In the background Halle Saint-Pierre, which exhibits "outsiders' art;" in front of it Dreyfus, five floors of textiles

Streets for textiles and their offshoots

Reine, another five-story textile store, facing the exhibition site

In front of one of many shops for notions, spools of thread for 1€

  

 

Wax: You can buy just 50 cm.

Avoid Friday afternoons,

when many stores close for the Sabbath. 

Barbès, La Goutte d'Or, the marché Saint-Pierre:
North African, Black and Jewish neighborhoods,

complementary and side by side.

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Stores almost as omnipresent as the barber shops

STORES ALMOST AS OMNIPRESENT AS BARBER SHOPS

Rue Doudeauville

K.H. Afrique Mode

77 rue Doudeauville

Rue des Poissonniers

Detour: 

Half-way down the street

Rue de Panama 

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Shops for notions follow the textiles

SHOPS FOR NOTIONS FOLLOW THE TEXTILES

THEY ARE PART OF THE AMBIANCE 

Le Monde de Nabate 
2 rue Léon

Kheweul
7 rue Stephanson

Diam international

45 rue Myrha

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A luminous, family-owned shop that replaces zippers, sharpens scissors, makes small repairs and sells lining, zippers, thread, buttons, pins to sew on a vest and even recycled sewing machines:

La Grande Mercerie Château Rouge

31 bis rue Myhra

"STUDENTS, - 50% on your alterations

Religious  cloths. You can personalize your order" (cushions, table runners, bedspreads, pajamas etc.)"

Adapted from a Google map 

 

More later.

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