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Sotho woman wearing a brown shweshwe dress. Shweshwe (/ ˈ ʃ w ɛ ʃ w ɛ /) [1] is a printed dyed cotton fabric widely used for traditional Southern African clothing. [2] [3] Originally dyed indigo, the fabric is manufactured in a variety of colours and printing designs characterised by intricate geometric patterns.
Desired patterns were a result of repetition of processes over time. Ghana: Adinkra symbols representing proverbs and aphorisms were stenciled on fabric using carved calabash stamps [23] and a vegetable-based dye to make Adinkra cloths traditionally worn by royalty and spiritual leaders. Adinkra cloths originated from the Bono Akan tribe of Ghana.
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and probably originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 CE/AD. [citation needed]
Even the fancy fabrics vary with a certain fashion. The fabrics are limited to amount and design and are sometimes exclusively sold in own shops. At first the fancy prints were made with engraved metal rollers but more recently they are produced using rotary screen-printing process. [15] The production of these imitation wax-print fabrics ...
Design for a hand woodblock printed textile, showing the complexity of the blocks used to make repeating patterns in the later 19th century. Tulip and Willow by William Morris, 1873. Woodblock printing on textiles is the process of printing patterns on fabrics, typically linen, cotton, or silk, by means of carved wooden blocks.
A typical kitenge pattern. Customers and visitors at a display of African kitenge clothes. A kitenge or chitenge (pl. vitenge Swahili; zitenge in Tonga) is an East African, West African and Central African piece of fabric similar to a sarong, often worn by women and wrapped around the chest or waist, over the head as a headscarf, or as a baby sling.
Printing is the process of adding localized or patterned color to fabrics. [2] Discharge printing involves dyeing first with dischargeable dyes; subsequently, the dyed fabric undergoes a printing process involving the application of a chemical-infused paste that effectively removes the color imparted by the dye.
The fabric's design components include a colorful floral pattern and lines - including curved, diagonal, and spiral lines. [citation needed] In Ghana the different colours of this pattern are used for different occasions. The blue main motif is used by women after delivery, the black fabric of this design is used for funerals and the more ...