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Fabric of the Week: Modern Indigo Adire
Our fabric of the week is the modern indigo adire from Southern Nigeria. It is a dark blue and white hand-dyed cotton cloth with a modern take on traditional Nigerian adire fabric. Made from 100% cotton, this fabric is suitable for garments, quilting, crafting and much more. This type of fabric would originally be dyed in indigo and the designs drawn on with cassava paste. It is now common to find it made with more modern dyes and the patterns drawn in wax. This is for the variety of colours available, colour-fastness and speed in the production process.
It is designed with hand-drawn traditional Yoruba symbols each with a name and story. The stories are often words of advice from the elders, or a means of documenting social, economic and environmental conditions.
Although the ‘boxes’ and therefore patterns are quite bold, the fabric still works well on items of various scales. Check out some examples below!
Have you bought this fabric or something similar? What did you make?
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