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Adire
Adire is a Yoruba resist-dyed textile tradition associated particularly with southwestern Nigeria. Artisans create patterns on cloth before dyeing it with indigo, using methods that include tying, stitching, folding, stenciling, or applying a cassava-starch resist that blocks the dye. Adire textiles feature geometric, figurative, and named motifs and are made for clothing, household use, ceremonia...
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Ikat
Ikat is a resist-dyeing and weaving method in which bundles of warp yarns, weft yarns, or both are bound and dyed before the cloth is woven. Careful alignment during weaving forms motifs, while small shifts between dyed yarns often produce the technique’s characteristic feathered or blurred edges. Distinct ikat traditions developed in regions including Central and Southeast Asia, India, Japan, and...
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