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.