Here I am rounding up some more fabric before I leave...tomorrow I will pick up some of Esther's batiks that I had made into trousers - the same design as the red ones I got last year which I love. Trish took me to the Trade Fair yesterday, and there was so much stuff, mostly from Ghana but also from other West African countries. The fabrics and the bead stalls were the most interesting - the latter especially so since Trish was with me. I bought some new stuff from Burkina Faso - an amazing green hand-dyed ikat strip, about three times the width of a kente strip (see below)...and some beautiful tie-dyed indigo (stitch resist pattern) cloth from Guinea pictured above.
I couldn't leave Accra without going to Makola Market again, after last year's visit with Trish and Michelle I ventured by myself this time to look for some printed indigo Dutch-wax, and found this pattern (below) which has the title "The best bees work in silence". Strangely enough, the bees in this fabric are so "silent" they are non -existent. Still, it's a beautiful print...and I got a new pink back scrubber wash cloth too!
Here I am rounding up some more fabric before I leave...tomorrow I will pick up some of Esther's batiks that I had made into trousers - the same design as the red ones I got last year which I love. Trish took me to the Trade Fair yesterday, and there was so much stuff, mostly from Ghana but also from other West African countries. The fabrics and the bead stalls were the most interesting - the latter especially so since Trish was with me. I bought some new stuff from Burkina Faso - an amazing green hand-dyed ikat strip, about three times the width of a kente strip (see below)...and some beautiful tie-dyed indigo (stitch resist pattern) cloth from Guinea pictured above.
I couldn't leave Accra without going to Makola Market again, after last year's visit with Trish and Michelle I ventured by myself this time to look for some printed indigo Dutch-wax, and found this pattern (below) which has the title "The best bees work in silence". Strangely enough, the bees in this fabric are so "silent" they are non -existent. Still, it's a beautiful print...and I got a new pink back scrubber wash cloth too!
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