Photos tagged as textiles

The Corridor of Cloth

The market in downtown Accra, textiles section. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall fabrics, with very little room to move, but lots of people who are moving.

• Date: 20 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: markets textiles crafts
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Making adinkra cloth

After witnessing the process of making the dye for adinkra cloth, we got to try our hand at it ourselves. Here's S making his mark.

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Ntonso, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts adinkra
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More string!!

The lengthy warps of the kente looms stretched out in the dust...

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Weaving the warp

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Working on the side of the street

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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streaks of colour

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Inside the loom

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Having a go

Warp threads have to be woven double-string... I had a go but mucked it up chronically...

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Kente weavers

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Done by the pros

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Rainbow of colours

Typical wax print and tie-dye batik cloth used to make clothes for everyday wear. Ghanaians dress in the most beautiful vibrant colours

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: clothes textiles crafts
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Older kente

This piece of kente is a little older in design.

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: cloth textiles crafts kente
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Adinkra cloth with kente

More adinkra cloth on yellow sand green single weave kente strips

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: cloth textiles crafts adinkra kente
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Traditional kente

A beautiful huge piece of kente cloth, made up of about 17 strips. A piece like this would traditionally be worn by a man (too big for a woman) of high stature in the community.

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: cloth textiles crafts kente
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Adinkra cloth with kente

The exhibit in the museum of Accra showing single-weave white kente printed with adinkra symbols interwoven with coloured double weave kente strips

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts adinkra kente
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Maranjob's Caravansary

Maranjob Caravansary which was built in 1012 A.H at a Silk Road detour is one of these golden-age structures. It is located in a 50-kilometer distance of Aran Bidgol city beside the Salt Lake and huge dunes. ========Caravansaries======== A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East. It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th- 19th centuries AD. ....................................................... For more info check the following site: http://www.chnphoto.ir/gallery.php?gallery_uid=190&lang=en

• Date: 25 November 2006
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran
• Tags: camel kombizz persian caravan "maranjob_caravansary" "silk_road" "aran_bidgol_city" "salt_lake" merchants "middle_east" "desert_trail" jewels spices perfumes dyes metals "rare_woods" ivory oils textiles "arabian_peninsula" "shah_abbas" "16th_19th_centuries_ad"
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