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.

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