"WAX" PRINTS, A SYMBOL OF AFRICA

THOUGH USUALLY MADE IN HOLLAND, CHINA OR INDIA, 

IT DEPENDS 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 at the place de l'Italie mall (in the 13th)

At La Goutte d'Or

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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, it recently appeared...

• In an art gallery photo...

By Anton F / Galerie d'Europe, 55 rue de Seine, 6th

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

• ...at the Louvre...

• ...but it is sold and worn throughout La Goutte d'Or:

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