« DAMES DE COULEUR » BY PATRICIA GERIMON & JEAN-CLAUDE TABURIAUX
On September 14th 2012, as part of the FITE’s programmation, there was the projection of the movie « DAMES DE COULEUR » realised by Patricia Gérimont et Jean-Claude Taburiaux. Synopsis : Sanata and Dicko are dyers in Mali. Sanata makes bazin colored products in Bamako with her co-workers. Dicko lives in the bush in dogon coutry and […]
INDIGO by ABOUBAKAR | THREADS OF LIFE BALI
Aboubakar Fofana teachs us how to prepare the fermented indigo material like he does in Mali his native country at the workshops « Threads of life » in Bali. Thanks to Threads of Life for the video sources. ©Threads of Life – All rights reserved.
The applied
The applied is a textile decorative technique which consist in sewed pieces of old tissue as decorations. This technique leaves yhe background visible. Archeology reveled the existence of applied in Sibérie since the III century before J-C during the excavations of Pazyryk’s tomb. The applied can also be reversed. The material places on top is […]
OCEANIAN TAPA
Tapa is an unweave textile that we can find everywhere in Polynesia, in some Melanesian Island and in New Caledonia. Its production is almost always done by women. Tapa’s production is not mainstream anymore but some recent initiatives like the Tapa’s Festival in Tahiti give a new lease of life to the extraordianry textile. It’s […]
JAPENESE’S BOROS
Boros are futon cover [futongawa], clothes [noragi] or utilitarian textiles [furoshiki], mended and patched with some recycled old material pieces. Inextricably link to their stuff – cotton – and its history, They show on the one hand the great austerity of the rural world and on the other hand they denounced the japenese social classes. […]