Fashions come and go, but some stick around for hundreds of years. For over five centuries, people in the city of Kano have dyed cloth in open-air pits and sold it across the region. At Kofar Mata, dyers use a time-honoured procedure of mixing ash, potash, natural indigo and water - to create stunning indigenous patterns. We travelled to northern Nigeria to witness the indigo-dye tradition of the people of Kofar Mata first hand. And to bag ourselves a few designs!
#Nigeria #KofarMata #Ash #Indigo #Fashion #Pits #Medicine #Dyeing #Potassium #Charcoal #Kano #DyePit #Chinese #Fabrics #Africa
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21 июл 2023
