Friday 1 June 2012

How we get beautiful colors of the damask (bazin)

Women who make the damask, cut the fabric according to dimmensions standards then make a different node location that will not be stained when the tissue is soaked in buckets of pigment and fixative.When the tissue comes out, it present spirals and colored large round. Then to make it shinning , it is dipped in a starch solution and placed in a dry closing. Since the 1960, when synthetics dyes came in west africa, Malian has learned to use them according to their esthetic preference.

A profitable fashion way for malian

The damask cotton dyed by hand is the first material of malian fashion. The blind singers honored this tissue in an album released in 2005 ''beaux a dimanche'' which means beautiful in sunday with the following words '' sunday is the wedding day in bamako. Men and women put their best boubou. The bazin are waiting  for you, sunday is weddding day in bamako.''
This blind couple sing the beauty of this damask, floral motifs and shimmering color that make women so elegant that the rush for singles seek in marriage.
  The paradox is so amazing that it has something to seduce.

Monday 7 May 2012

Types of embroideries on bazin



Embroidery is an art, that is drawing so harmonious and esthetic designs on cloth with thread. Embroidery is an exciting profession to practice and to learn, although some malian communities would like it to be the tradition handed down from father to son or from mother to daughter. clearly the procedures differ from one technique to another. With hand embroidery the work is done in long, it requires extreme care especially the application and accuracy.With the machine unlike what is done by hand, the machine work is faster, less painful and the production is more important. Several machines are used in embroidery on the thick wire, small wire, the phonis, the saxo.
Artists fingered magicians, handle the thread with art to give a creative touch to the bazin the combination of motifs adorming it with good-looking color to enhance its brilliance as a travel background color, embroidery mainly artisanal bazin gives a spicy taste even more.
   The embroidery craft is an  inimitable product, that give it, a unique character and that's what the values elsewhere.  Followers along ethnic and conditional esthetics are certainly on their behalf in this art thread handling. Thread of different colors and different qualities that go to the rhythms of the imagination of the embroiderer. Embroideryhas been popular in mali for some year now, the youth in general distinguish to prefer to wear bazin style very embroidery with motifs. They want to dress well and with class.
 

Monday 23 April 2012

Bazin in the malian society





Bazin, one of the most coveted africain fabrics from mali and other coutries such as Burkina Faso , Senegale, but especially admired in Mali to the point of becoming a cultural identity in Mali. the damask comes from different europeen countries likes Germany, Hollande etc, but Mali is the leading provider bazin of all africa so we think the fabric is made in mali.The damask fabric is cotton which has the distinction of making the color shimmering when stained. Its elegance in the traditionally cotton fabric of choice for making tunics, festive creations and contemporary chic. Stiffer it is more expensive it is. Bazin africolor is hand dyed, each fabrics created by hand is unique. Malians have the tendencies to wear the damask in special occasion such as marriages, naming ceremonies, engagement parties ect. In Mali, bazin is more focused than any afrcain fabric and even more than those foreing dresses.
The beauty of a continent, a nation is reflected in the genius of  his people.

Monday 16 April 2012

Is citizen journalism a threat or a challenge to professional journalist?


Instead of wondering whether citizenship journalism is a threat or a challenge to journalism, the question being asked at the moment is how important it is.

Today weblogs seem to be everywhere in and around the journalism. The media publish weblogs as one item in their online content repertoire, individual journalists have taken up blogging, and an array of amateurs are maintaining weblogs that at least to certain extent resemble news journalism. The profession has come to see its niche as connected to the absence of personal bias but rather to journalistic method.

 It will be reasonable to assume that the social maturation of internet communication, for its parts has formed favourable ground for citizenship journalism to develop a specific net communication genre.