The truth about "African" wax prints 

Did the dutch only manufactured the fabrics by machines. Are the prints originated from continent?

@@Ashishsevkani The prints , patterns are African, created by African graphic designers. Many of the designs have meaning behind them.

Wonderful! Glad we could help you out! Good luck with your dress line!

@@user-vw6bk4pb4l Thanx

Great question

Hey @AfrobiomedicalShuntá thank you for your comment. We are glad that you liked the video. Indeed we already did a video about "Human hair products: What's their true cost?" Check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RCxROHbdRKk.html

@@DWThe77Percent Thanks for the suggestion! I just watched it. My stance was more so about the psychological implications rather economic politics. Meaning, wigs are praised for Afrodescendants in professional places due to the artificial beauty. Somehow, we’ve internalized it as well and refuse to view our natural hair as beautiful. Most of us, would rather have an unkempt wig rather than unapologetically embrace our true selves like every other human being does on this planet. In our community, wigs are synonymous with beauty and professionalism. On the other hand, naturals are synonymous with poverty and shame. That was the route I was going with on my first comment.

@@afrobiomedicalshunta3452 Thanks for the suggestion as well, we did a story about skin bleeching some years ago which was aiming to go into this direction. But we'll definately discuss this approach in our next editorial meeting for the show. It is indeed a very interesting and urgent topic. Thank you so much for the input.

@@afrobiomedicalshunta3452 You and I think alike, we need to team up and smack some sense into the naturally beautiful African diaspora. I've had poems with this channel for quite a while, one of my arguments was that when the hosts/presenters themselves wear fake "beauty" products on video they're endorsing and encouraging other Africans to emulate them , which is actually quite bad.

I have not had poems but I have had problems, this autocorrect is killing me. 😅

It was invented in Africa

@@osewilliemz8069 wdym? The printing technique or the design? The technique was invented in china during the 8th century, the indonesian then perfected it with their own technique and style and then the dutch introduced it to african and then african perfected it and developed their own style. I think its pretty cool that our culture is connected ❤️

​@@genghisfunk5236 Nope, Batik print in Africa come directly from Indonesians, not the Dutch! Africans already invented similar stencilled colourful traditional textiles for millennia, but Indonesian Batik was a new technique that helped create more elaborate patterns or shapes. Throughout Eastern Africa, such as on the Swahili coast of Kenya and Tanzania, they learnt to make Indonesian Batik. In West Africa, they knew how to make Batik prints too, combined with local tie-dye traditions such as West African indigo. In Madagascar, the Island was settled by Indonesians over 1000 years ago, who maintained trade relations. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YTy7oMigryI.html (Nigerian Adire, some designs combined with Batik) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YtjRoQn2EFc.html (Nigerian Adire with Batik) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DMDpzvFBF6Y.html (East African Kitenge with Batik) Europeans love to rewrite history. The Dutch simply mechanised, Industrialised and mass marketed Indonesian wax prints, taking design cues from the African market. Which made them more affordable, and accessible compared to hand-made African Batik prints, and traditional African textiles. Dutch-Vlisco brand has also become a status symbol to some.

@@genghisfunk5236 we have our own indigenous textiles though but the its too streinious to make in mordern times look up kongo textiles or kente

No it wasnt@@osewilliemz8069

Hi can you please give me your sources ? I think the same like you actually and I would like to educate myself more on that. Enough of giving credit to others and not crediting ourselves

@@fatoumajoly9373 just check out precolonial pictures on Google

@@fatoumajoly9373 just check pre colonial African pictures

if someone makes fufu in europe does it make it european

@@humphreyjoseph2123 lol same thoughts here too😂

@@itgamingke ikr no mater who make it wil always be african FAX

But what's wrong in buying Foreign?

This is not an expose. It is a history of African fashion. Like the last speaker said, the product was evolved to suit the taste of Africans. I would rather have someone produce a product with the African customer in mind than the the way it is for e very thing else. Artisans are still weaving cloth in Mali, Ghana, and elsewhere in West Africa and tailors make beautiful garments out of them.

It is good to focus on where the product is finished and what value that adds to the economy. Custom tailoring supports many families in West Africa and this is how Africans benefit from the cloth trade - speaking to your point. Second hand clothing imports is the big problem.

@@roshanminai Do you have a brain? Buying foreign goods is the reason why Africa is poor

@@katchikali9573 So you just elucidated my point. Africans directly benefitting from "African Fashion" irrespective of "taste", "design" or specific country within or outside of The African continent. Tangible economic benefit for African concepts not just African consumerism.

there are many wax textile manufacturers in Nigeria like DaVida