I think the algorithm has started to take notice 👀. Greetings from Australia! My dad was able to escape apartheid in the 70's, but I myself only visited South Africa as a baby. So thank you for teaching me some of the history & culture that raised my father. I'll be sure to share your content & I hope to learn more from you in the future!
The final product turned out great. I love the modern spin that you put on the dress. Thank for putting out content even with your busy freelancing schedule!
A side effect of respectability politics seems to be that fashion and bearing become a shield - those women looked absolutely regal and full of pride. Beautiful ❤
In Zulu, seShweshwe is also called isiJalimani. It originated in Germany, and was worn by German farm women in Eastern and Southern KZN and Lesotho. The white farmers in these regions are still of German descent. Interestingly, the majority of Pedi speaking people are of Nguni, Koni, Nkwana, Laka, Moletlana, Ndebele, Swati, Pulana, Mbayi/Pai, Kutswe descent which are all Nguni clans.
@@Otk637 no, maPulana are baTau, not Kwena. BaKoni/Nguni are baNdau / Tau, the lion people. The original siPulana language is closer to siSwati than to sePedi. The real baPedi are Marota, the Noko people, a branch of the baKgatla
@@ohlangeni I said DESCENT, one of them was lead by Morolong (leader of Barolong) and some from Bakwena but the origins of the name 'Pulane' comes from Bakone/Nguni (Amazizi) king. The point I am trying to make is that Mapulana dont have one common ancestry, It differs based on region. Sepulana sounds close to Xitsonga and siSwati because that's who they live amongst but main dialect is Sesotho. This information is coming from them not me. In reguards to Bapedi you are proving my point, whether you wanna call the 'Bakgatla ba dithebe' , 'Marota' or 'Bapedi' they all fall under Northern Sesotho.
What a beautiful dress! Amazing work. I love the bow shape of the bodice. Thank you for sharing the history aspect too. Good luck with the podcast episode and I hope you get more stable income soon. ❤
I am proudly South African. I remember way back when swhe swhe was only brown and creams or only blue and cream patterns. I just bought printed panels for a skirt with 4 colours. After your video I am thinking of making a matching top by fabric painting on Fasco. I want to try the painting bleach on denim too. Learning about the history can help us not repeating the same mistake.
This is such a richly textured joy, you pour so much love and thought into your research and work! Gonna be immediately jumping on that podcast and can't wait for your further videos on shweshwe and historical fashion 😍
I thoroughly enjoyed this exposition of shweshwe and the garment you created is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing! I look forward to more vids from you!
Great video, beautiful creation. I first learnt about shweshwe when living in Cape Town. The indigo colour is quite interesting cause i later took part in a plant dye workshop there and the plants gave a strong clear blue/ indigo imprint.
Very interesting video! I love to learn about textiles from different parts of the world. And shweshwe was new to me. As I love denim in general I find this amazing ❤ BTW, Dirndl is actually NOT a national dress of Germany. It’s only from a specific region in the south and a lot of Germans would be offended to be associated with Dirndls 😅 Greetings from Berlin Edit. Your dress is sooo beautiful 😍
@@Khensani no problem. You really inspired me to try bleaching some patterns on denim fabric before sewing it up. I am looking forward to see what you will create in the future.
You can use potassium permanganate to create discharge prints on indigo dyed fabric. Wax or stitching can also be used to create designs if you apply them before before dying the fabric.
Nice to see a strong narrative, I think design with a narrative is really the only interesting thing to do in this stage which I am tempted to label Metamodernism. (as some have suggested) If you follow a Metamodern framework then it’s possible to leverage uncomfortable histories to a creative and positive end. An example of an outside tradition positively impacting a trade city, that I think is quite interesting, is the Doge’s Palace in Venice. The patterning on the walls and the spiral corner details suggest that this influential building was inspired by trade with the Persians who had an amazing tapestry tradition. So the Venetian tradition is interwoven with the Persian tradition. Hence just because a cultural tradition has roots outside its ‘home’ does not mean that it is in some way less relevant. In a similar way to the Venetians I have tried to pull Shweshwe patterning into an architectural piece, as a way to celebrate place, by turning a textile tradition into an architectural one. Bearing in mind that the building is designed in Cape Town another trade city and that Shweshwe was a French gift to a Basotho King (according to everyone’s favourite source that no one likes to quote) I think it’s a positive cultural symbol. I don’t seek to be political by this move but rather to celebrate things that are greater than any individual designer and particular to a place where an architectural piece may find itself - time, placement, humanness = community = culture 😊
I appreciate your video as Ive been learning about indigo and its role in chattel slavery in the south recently. Its cool to see the connection to South Africa as well. I def relate to your feeling of a shadow looming over you since my family were made to grow indigo during slavery.
Wild how these connections can be found! I believe that at some point a lot of the shweshwe fabric was being dyed with indigo from enslaved labour in America!
I was so happy when I saw this video pop up in my feed! I know freelancing can definitely be stressful, I hope you aren't having to run yourself ragged. Thanks for another interesting video!
I followed you on IG but I didnt know you had a channel here´. The dress turned out beautifully and the bite sized historical context was also nice to have. Also the memes were exquisite. Nice to have you here, Khensani! Now i´m a follower AND a suscriber. Greetings from Colombia
subscribed immediately, so excited to learn about historical fashion (etc) from an african perspective! have not encountered a channel like this before (if u know others lmk!!)
This video was amazing! Great job, the dress looks beautiful, and this was very informative. Subscribed and looking forward to watching your future and previous videos!!!
Your work is incredible 👍🏿 I wish to connect, I understand you come from JHB, SA. Any Kasi you grew up from and possibly sourced your fashion inspiration. Your fashion history and research in on point...big up!! 💟 O tswa kae?
Thank you so much! I was actually born and raised in Joburg suburbs but my mom grew up ko Mamelodi so I've spent time there along with my dad's hometown in Limpopo
I have exactly those family photo’s taken in Johannesburg. The setting looks the same. They were Jewish. I don’t know much about them. The Photographer is from Johannesburg according to the photos. And their attire are similar. Love your channel.❤
Love your content. Just discovered you today but every source I’ve ever read about the origins of Shweshwe is that it’s a German fabric/ was brought to SA by German migrants but you said Dutch migrants. Can you provide a source for that?
So there were manufactures in both Holland and Germany creating shweshwe that brought over. A very thorough explanation can be found in isishweshwe by Juliette Leeb-du Toit
So funny you mention that because I've been researching cyanotypes. A friend of mine said she'll show me how they work and I'll try it out some time in the future.
I am a Saffer and love shweshwe fabric. It's a pity that the designs are now printed on polyester fabric and not only on cotton as tradisionally. Could you expand on the role of German missionaries bringing shweshwe into South Africa? Love your dress. Very innovative😊
So, I highly recommend shopping seshweshwe from Da Gama textiles (their factory is in the Eastern Cape but they supply to many places). You can identify them by the stamps on the fabrics, it'll usually be Three Cats, Kwa Nobantu, Yeyethu, etc) They still use the traditional techniques and machinery and it's on cotton sourced regionally from Zimbabwe. And then re: German missionaries - so both the Dutch and German took the practices from Indonesia/India and produced in their countries and the British set up their own later on as well. From what I understand, blueprint (before it was call shweshwe) was popular for lower class people in Germany so the missionaries brought that to the Eastern Cape and also introduced local Xhosa speakers to it during the process of converting them to Christianity
My understanding of shweshwe was brought by German settlers in the 1800’s and that is why it is only manufactured in Zwelitsha using machines that are more than a century old.
@@Khensani thanks so much for this info. I currently work in the home decor industry and recently started working with a lot of African textiles I am always trying to learn more. so thanks! I will look into these
@@antebellumblackamerican7408 my pleasure! you'll probably be able to recognise bogolanfini (or mudcloth) as its quite popular for home textiles! all the best with your research and work
Shweshwe was brought to South Africa in the 1800's by German immigrants. It has been printed in many countries around the world, beginning in European countries such as Czechoslovakia and Hungary and later England in the 1030's. It has been worn by South African women since the 1800's and was originally only in blue. It's origin is NOT Asian at all.
@Khensani Cape Malay * i doubt it was intentionally done but you do seem to avoid mentioning that it is infact, batik, a wax resist printing technique, that is used to create SheeShwe. And it originates from South East Asia (the former Sultanates of Malaka, Nusantara etc.) and not South Asia (India). It might with noting that. But I do commend the effort in reclaiming the fabric. Your design skills are impressive and the final piece is quite beautiful.
@@drakewolfe8034 thank you for this! I'm still doing a lot of research so lots of blanks to be filled. And there seems to be a lot overlap between India and Indonesia as origins. It also gets murky because Dutch, German and British manufactures would take knowledge from South East and South Asia and create their own derivatives and advance that in the industrial revolution. I was also unsure because, from my understanding, the patterns are lot more in line with Indian designs like you'd see on chintz (though I could be wrong) and also shweshwe uses an acid discharge as opposed to wax along with roller printing on copper/brass plates and pins.
Nice presentation but you need to do a bit more research. ShweShwe has a very specific history with very specific (German) origins. That is what makes it what it is, without it not ShweShwe. If I, as a white person, design a new-look trafitional dress for the Zulu, it will not, and cannot become part of that tradition, quite simply because I am not a Zulu. It's unfortunate that everything in SA is politicized and attempts made to slowly erase or alter white influence. I find it interesting rhat you don't see the introduction of ShweShwe, which was wecomed by the black community on a national scale, becoming part of their identity and national dress, as a contribution. There is nothing wrong with coming up with something new (like ShweShwe!), just be content to call it that and please give credit where it is due. When it comes to pattern making and textiles, or fashion for that matter, black Africa does not need to borrow anything from anyone.
OK, I'm specifically focusing on the Afro-Asian link because it's well trodden road about the European influence. And on top of that, perhaps you should do more research (or even double check the sources I cited if you're so sure) about how blauwdruk would have come to Germany (hint: it has to do with Asian agriculture and textile production like I said). On top of that, the same cloth was being manufactured in the Netherlands, UK and America so not sure how it wouldn't be shweshwe without the Germans. I'm happy to be wrong but the idea that Germans are underrepresented in this conversation is kind of laughable? Like, you're welcome to contend that I'm overstating the pre-existing African influence, or perhaps I'd understand a conversation about the links lower- and working-class German settlers and local Africans they interacted with and attempted to evangelise. And, also, I'd suggest looking into indigenisation because there are literally several examples of European settlers introducing certain textiles and clothing to Southern Africans that have become a part of tradition/culture for them. It's literally the case with shweshwe.
The Xhosa fabric that is ama-jereman is brown. The fabric for Ba-Tswana is blue with small dots, and it's called Sekgatla. All other fabrics are called Seshoeshoe. Basotho, don't ever wear ama-Jeremane and Sekgatla. However all other tribes in South Aftica have made Seshoeshoe highly popular and fashionable in modern times
@@speciematete8049 thanks for this. though technically, these are all produced the same way (resist dyed calico). would be cool to see how/when these differences were established though, like if it was according to the manufacturers or the consumers or changes in trade etc
Seshoeshoe takes the name from the Basotho King, Moshoeshoe. Made popular for being worn a lot by Basotho.
You put so much thought, research and integrity into these videos. I appreciate you so much. I learn so much from you.
I appreciate that!
I think the algorithm has started to take notice 👀.
Greetings from Australia! My dad was able to escape apartheid in the 70's, but I myself only visited South Africa as a baby. So thank you for teaching me some of the history & culture that raised my father. I'll be sure to share your content & I hope to learn more from you in the future!
Oh wow, that's so lovely how that's worked out. Glad you could get a little more insight into your dad's home land
The final product turned out great. I love the modern spin that you put on the dress. Thank for putting out content even with your busy freelancing schedule!
Thank you
The dress Khensani has made is amazing 🌟 I especially love the bodice and frayed edges on the cuffs 😍
THOSE B&W PHOTOS. This video rules
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A side effect of respectability politics seems to be that fashion and bearing become a shield - those women looked absolutely regal and full of pride. Beautiful ❤
In Zulu, seShweshwe is also called isiJalimani.
It originated in Germany, and was worn by German farm women in Eastern and Southern KZN and Lesotho. The white farmers in these regions are still of German descent. Interestingly, the majority of Pedi speaking people are of Nguni, Koni, Nkwana, Laka, Moletlana, Ndebele, Swati, Pulana, Mbayi/Pai, Kutswe descent which are all Nguni clans.
I've heard that some of Mapulana descent from Bakwena and Barolong (Sotho-Tswana nations) also It's Northern Sesotho, Sepedi is a part of it.
@@Otk637 no, maPulana are baTau, not Kwena. BaKoni/Nguni are baNdau / Tau, the lion people. The original siPulana language is closer to siSwati than to sePedi.
The real baPedi are Marota, the Noko people, a branch of the baKgatla
@@ohlangeni I said DESCENT, one of them was lead by Morolong (leader of Barolong) and some from Bakwena but the origins of the name 'Pulane' comes from Bakone/Nguni (Amazizi) king. The point I am trying to make is that Mapulana dont have one common ancestry, It differs based on region. Sepulana sounds close to Xitsonga and siSwati because that's who they live amongst but main dialect is Sesotho. This information is coming from them not me.
In reguards to Bapedi you are proving my point, whether you wanna call the 'Bakgatla ba dithebe' , 'Marota' or 'Bapedi' they all fall under Northern Sesotho.
What a beautiful dress! Amazing work. I love the bow shape of the bodice. Thank you for sharing the history aspect too. Good luck with the podcast episode and I hope you get more stable income soon. ❤
Thank you, really appreciate that!
You are so funny smart and talented like you’re the whole package babes!! Thanks for posting!
That's so kind thank you!!!
I am proudly South African. I remember way back when swhe swhe was only brown and creams or only blue and cream patterns. I just bought printed panels for a skirt with 4 colours. After your video I am thinking of making a matching top by fabric painting on Fasco. I want to try the painting bleach on denim too. Learning about the history can help us not repeating the same mistake.
For once the algorithm was right bc I found you 😂 immediate subscribe! ☺️
Loved the history shared. Fascinating. Thank you.
This gown is quite lovely. Thank you for providing a local South African perspective on shweshwe. 💙
This is such a richly textured joy, you pour so much love and thought into your research and work! Gonna be immediately jumping on that podcast and can't wait for your further videos on shweshwe and historical fashion 😍
African Fashion and also a leftist quote in the first few seconds? Sign me up…
Edit: also sewing and history? Awh yeah
I was sold too, by then.
yup. me too, plz.
i know right
the best day of my life was the day i discovered this channel! thank you for posting !!
Ur creations is so beautiful, and U more beautiful inside n out❤
Lovely dress. Also like the way u worked the denim. From Edenglen and quilter.
Saw you on TT. Had no idea you were on YT. My Mom ke Moshoeshoe. She is so gonna love this, as I do.
Props to you.
oh that's amazing! say hi to your mom
Omg I didn't know you had a podcast! Following IMMEDIATELY!
I thoroughly enjoyed this exposition of shweshwe and the garment you created is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing! I look forward to more vids from you!
Great video, beautiful creation. I first learnt about shweshwe when living in Cape Town. The indigo colour is quite interesting cause i later took part in a plant dye workshop there and the plants gave a strong clear blue/ indigo imprint.
That's so fun! I'm desperate to try out plant dyes!
Very interesting video! I love to learn about textiles from different parts of the world. And shweshwe was new to me. As I love denim in general I find this amazing ❤
BTW, Dirndl is actually NOT a national dress of Germany. It’s only from a specific region in the south and a lot of Germans would be offended to be associated with Dirndls 😅 Greetings from Berlin
Edit. Your dress is sooo beautiful 😍
Omg, thank you for clarifying that for me!
@@Khensani no problem. You really inspired me to try bleaching some patterns on denim fabric before sewing it up. I am looking forward to see what you will create in the future.
Really great work! Thanks for the information
Incredible and insightful! Thanks so much🥺
You can use potassium permanganate to create discharge prints on indigo dyed fabric. Wax or stitching can also be used to create designs if you apply them before before dying the fabric.
I knew about the wax and stitching methods. Will check out potassium permanganate, thank you!
That dress looks gorgeous, thank you for sharing it and your history
Thank you so much!
as usual this is rly interesting and the dress you made is so gorgeous!
I'm glad you like it
so happy I found your channel, you’re so talented
Very well spoken, subscribed
this is gorgeous! I think you're up next. this channel is about to blow up & your hard work will pay off 🎉🎉🎉 subscribed to both the channel & podcast
thank you so much, I really appreciate it
Nice to see a strong narrative, I think design with a narrative is really the only interesting thing to do in this stage which I am tempted to label Metamodernism. (as some have suggested)
If you follow a Metamodern framework then it’s possible to leverage uncomfortable histories to a creative and positive end.
An example of an outside tradition positively impacting a trade city, that I think is quite interesting, is the Doge’s Palace in Venice. The patterning on the walls and the spiral corner details suggest that this influential building was inspired by trade with the Persians who had an amazing tapestry tradition. So the Venetian tradition is interwoven with the Persian tradition. Hence just because a cultural tradition has roots outside its ‘home’ does not mean that it is in some way less relevant.
In a similar way to the Venetians I have tried to pull Shweshwe patterning into an architectural piece, as a way to celebrate place, by turning a textile tradition into an architectural one. Bearing in mind that the building is designed in Cape Town another trade city and that Shweshwe was a French gift to a Basotho King (according to everyone’s favourite source that no one likes to quote) I think it’s a positive cultural symbol.
I don’t seek to be political by this move but rather to celebrate things that are greater than any individual designer and particular to a place where an architectural piece may find itself - time, placement, humanness = community = culture 😊
Moving up in the world from days of Lisof past. Nice.
thank you, great video
I appreciate your video as Ive been learning about indigo and its role in chattel slavery in the south recently. Its cool to see the connection to South Africa as well. I def relate to your feeling of a shadow looming over you since my family were made to grow indigo during slavery.
Wild how these connections can be found! I believe that at some point a lot of the shweshwe fabric was being dyed with indigo from enslaved labour in America!
Fantastic content. Keep going.
I was so happy when I saw this video pop up in my feed! I know freelancing can definitely be stressful, I hope you aren't having to run yourself ragged. Thanks for another interesting video!
Brooke! Thank you. I'm a little more balanced now, just took some adjustment
You explained this so well for us. Thanks for sharing.
Your such a ball, great presentation i am not that deep into fashion but i was never bored during this episode. Keep it up
I know nothing about this and am delighted to learn more! Thank you for filling this niche on here!
You are absolutely SO SO delightful and this gown is so lovely. Thank you for the content.
thank you!!!!
love ❤❤❤Level of research and your creative process.
Thank you so much!
I need your book so badly when it comes out. I love your viewpoint. Looking forward to much more!
You did a wonderful job and I loved hearing about the history especially
so interesting to have a video essay on history as well as a seeing you creating garments! i love this video entirely
This garment is gorgeous 😍 thank you for sharing!
Thank you for creating and sharing quality stuff!
Love love this video, the topic, your voice and the way you tell stories and THE DRESS - very cool
Found your content on tiktok and i am glad that you on YT, love your work.
Beautifully done-so glad I found you.
I followed you on IG but I didnt know you had a channel here´. The dress turned out beautifully and the bite sized historical context was also nice to have. Also the memes were exquisite.
Nice to have you here, Khensani! Now i´m a follower AND a suscriber.
Greetings from Colombia
Omg thank you! Glad to have you over here
Happy that TH-cam showed me your video.
Fascinating discussion and a beautiful project, thank you for sharing! 🌻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this content.needs to go viral🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Love this! Happy to have stumbled upon this video :)
subscribed immediately, so excited to learn about historical fashion (etc) from an african perspective! have not encountered a channel like this before (if u know others lmk!!)
You inspired me so much with this dress that I decided to die patterns of my own on one of my pairs of jeans
So insightful ❤
Great video! You're so pretty!!
thank you!!!!
I never realised just how much of a neutral english 'accent' South Africans have until now. Great video 😘
Love your tik toks, so glad I found you on TH-cam too
This is so amazing thank you for sharing!
This video was amazing! Great job, the dress looks beautiful, and this was very informative. Subscribed and looking forward to watching your future and previous videos!!!
The patterns are so pretty! I can feel my hands ache from how much time it must have taken to make it!
FASCINATING! I can’t wait to binge your videos now that I have found you
Same here
Fair warning, some of them are like 4 years old so I don't know if I stand by everything haha
@@Khensani alrighty!!
Gorgeous!
I clicked subscribe 10 seconds in and I’m about to binge watch your videos. xx
Came from TikTok. This was such an interesting video. The dress came out beautifully.
Thanks for coming!
Oh this is good
I didn't expect the video to be so philosophical
This is so cool!
VERY DOPE, my sista!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🔥🔥
The content is great. Did you live in the states for a while - I’m noticing the accent?
Nope, born and raised in JHB.
You sound so good ❤
aaw thank you!
Your work is incredible 👍🏿
I wish to connect, I understand you come from JHB, SA. Any Kasi you grew up from and possibly sourced your fashion inspiration. Your fashion history and research in on point...big up!! 💟
O tswa kae?
Thank you so much! I was actually born and raised in Joburg suburbs but my mom grew up ko Mamelodi so I've spent time there along with my dad's hometown in Limpopo
@@Khensani , I appreciate you more, may Almighty God preserve you as learning from you is just amazing 👍🏿
I have exactly those family photo’s taken in Johannesburg. The setting looks the same. They were Jewish. I don’t know much about them. The Photographer is from Johannesburg according to the photos. And their attire are similar. Love your channel.❤
oh wow that's amazing
Love your content. Just discovered you today but every source I’ve ever read about the origins of Shweshwe is that it’s a German fabric/ was brought to SA by German migrants but you said Dutch migrants. Can you provide a source for that?
So there were manufactures in both Holland and Germany creating shweshwe that brought over. A very thorough explanation can be found in isishweshwe by Juliette Leeb-du Toit
I know you can't do this now, but maybe look into using cyanotype to dye those cave paintings onto some fabric?
So funny you mention that because I've been researching cyanotypes. A friend of mine said she'll show me how they work and I'll try it out some time in the future.
@@Khensani That's amazing! You should think about pitching this to a gallery when your done - like as a contemporary artwork.
@Khensani - Your dress design is amazing! The bleached pattern, the bodice detail, the seams and especially the frayed edges on the cuffs 😍😍😍
I am a Saffer and love shweshwe fabric. It's a pity that the designs are now printed on polyester fabric and not only on cotton as tradisionally.
Could you expand on the role of German missionaries bringing shweshwe into South Africa?
Love your dress. Very innovative😊
So, I highly recommend shopping seshweshwe from Da Gama textiles (their factory is in the Eastern Cape but they supply to many places). You can identify them by the stamps on the fabrics, it'll usually be Three Cats, Kwa Nobantu, Yeyethu, etc) They still use the traditional techniques and machinery and it's on cotton sourced regionally from Zimbabwe.
And then re: German missionaries - so both the Dutch and German took the practices from Indonesia/India and produced in their countries and the British set up their own later on as well. From what I understand, blueprint (before it was call shweshwe) was popular for lower class people in Germany so the missionaries brought that to the Eastern Cape and also introduced local Xhosa speakers to it during the process of converting them to Christianity
@@KhensaniI usually get Da Gama Three Cats brand when I buy Shweshwe. I live in Gauteng with several big well stocked fabric stores in my area.
"White Whale" hits hard...
You’re so dope!
Bless the algorithm
My understanding of shweshwe was brought by German settlers in the 1800’s and that is why it is only manufactured in Zwelitsha using machines that are more than a century old.
So how did it become a Pedi traditional wear 😅😅😅😅😅
I would love to learn more about shwweshwe. but what are the actual indigenous fabrics of
Africa not ones brought by the Europeans?
There are loads like kente, aso oke, kuba raffia, bogolanfini, barkcloth just to name a few.
@@Khensani thanks so much for this info. I currently work in the home decor industry and recently started working with a lot of African textiles I am always trying to learn more. so thanks! I will look into these
@@antebellumblackamerican7408 my pleasure! you'll probably be able to recognise bogolanfini (or mudcloth) as its quite popular for home textiles! all the best with your research and work
I know our relationship is parasocial, but I missed you ❤
Omg thank you I really appreciate that! I have been dreading a return to YT so this is so great. Hope you're good x
I thought Seshweshwe was Blaudruck, hence the name Sejeremane ?
that's correct!
We call it setoishi
Shweshwe was brought to South Africa in the 1800's by German immigrants. It has been printed in many countries around the world, beginning in European countries such as Czechoslovakia and Hungary and later England in the 1030's. It has been worn by South African women since the 1800's and was originally only in blue. It's origin is NOT Asian at all.
indigo dye and the resist printing methods were learned in Asia and then brought over to Europe so
This dress eats
Ma'am, I love your videos, but please please slow down a little. You hit some of us with a lot of information and it takes a while to catch up. ❤️🙏🏿
Sorry about that, definitely something I need to work on. Thank you for this feedback
Not only did the fabric come from Asia, people were brought with it and subsequently shipped to the Americas into slavery.
They were enslaved here as well. They make a significant portion of the ancestry of the Black and Cape Coloured community
@Khensani Cape Malay * i doubt it was intentionally done but you do seem to avoid mentioning that it is infact, batik, a wax resist printing technique, that is used to create SheeShwe. And it originates from South East Asia (the former Sultanates of Malaka, Nusantara etc.) and not South Asia (India). It might with noting that.
But I do commend the effort in reclaiming the fabric. Your design skills are impressive and the final piece is quite beautiful.
@@drakewolfe8034 thank you for this! I'm still doing a lot of research so lots of blanks to be filled. And there seems to be a lot overlap between India and Indonesia as origins. It also gets murky because Dutch, German and British manufactures would take knowledge from South East and South Asia and create their own derivatives and advance that in the industrial revolution. I was also unsure because, from my understanding, the patterns are lot more in line with Indian designs like you'd see on chintz (though I could be wrong) and also shweshwe uses an acid discharge as opposed to wax along with roller printing on copper/brass plates and pins.
You have better garment finishes than ..... than ..... * signal lost *
Nice presentation but you need to do a bit more research. ShweShwe has a very specific history with very specific (German) origins. That is what makes it what it is, without it not ShweShwe. If I, as a white person, design a new-look trafitional dress for the Zulu, it will not, and cannot become part of that tradition, quite simply because I am not a Zulu. It's unfortunate that everything in SA is politicized and attempts made to slowly erase or alter white influence. I find it interesting rhat you don't see the introduction of ShweShwe, which was wecomed by the black community on a national scale, becoming part of their identity and national dress, as a contribution. There is nothing wrong with coming up with something new (like ShweShwe!), just be content to call it that and please give credit where it is due. When it comes to pattern making and textiles, or fashion for that matter, black Africa does not need to borrow anything from anyone.
OK, I'm specifically focusing on the Afro-Asian link because it's well trodden road about the European influence. And on top of that, perhaps you should do more research (or even double check the sources I cited if you're so sure) about how blauwdruk would have come to Germany (hint: it has to do with Asian agriculture and textile production like I said). On top of that, the same cloth was being manufactured in the Netherlands, UK and America so not sure how it wouldn't be shweshwe without the Germans. I'm happy to be wrong but the idea that Germans are underrepresented in this conversation is kind of laughable? Like, you're welcome to contend that I'm overstating the pre-existing African influence, or perhaps I'd understand a conversation about the links lower- and working-class German settlers and local Africans they interacted with and attempted to evangelise. And, also, I'd suggest looking into indigenisation because there are literally several examples of European settlers introducing certain textiles and clothing to Southern Africans that have become a part of tradition/culture for them. It's literally the case with shweshwe.
U are laying it is not south africa but Lesotho tradition , stop that nonsense
Would you prefer Southern Africa? Because it's also a Xhosa and Tswana tradition along with other SADC countries like Namibia and Botswana.
The Xhosa fabric that is ama-jereman is brown. The fabric for Ba-Tswana is blue with small dots, and it's called Sekgatla. All other fabrics are called Seshoeshoe. Basotho, don't ever wear ama-Jeremane and Sekgatla. However all other tribes in South Aftica have made Seshoeshoe highly popular and fashionable in modern times
@@speciematete8049 thanks for this. though technically, these are all produced the same way (resist dyed calico). would be cool to see how/when these differences were established though, like if it was according to the manufacturers or the consumers or changes in trade etc
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