Here’s how artisans in West Africa create intricate tie-dye designs.
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Musa is a lovely man..I met him while in Gambia..his fabric are lovely at a good price..I'm told Musa gives some of his money to finance the upkeep of the local health clinic..🇬🇲❤️🇬🇲❤️
I met him too! They call him the Van Gogh of Gambia :D
This is beautiful. THIS is what entrepreneurship SHOULD be. WE are a community, one small group of people, but we must protect each other, or there is survival for NONE. Y’all love each other out there.
The Gambia you mean. They added “The” for a reason.
I want to find out how to buy directly from him.
@@TouchofShunshine yes! If he’s got a store online he’s about to bring home a new hospital for the village..
Coolest thing I've seen all day.
Sad
@@DontBeMad911 How?
@@THEJPR l8o
@@DontBeMad911 how is that sad
It is a cool tradition
A true artist always love what they do.
Well like with any profession sometimes it can just feel like work, but as the overall vibe absolutely! 😊
Actually, every artist I've met is super perfectionist and critical about their art, but go off lol
@@ding-dong_bing-bong I feel that the "love" here is synonymous with passion in my personal opinion. And one could say there's certainly an abundance of passion with perfectionism. Definitely relatable 🤙
@@ding-dong_bing-bong you’re so annoying
Bro, no offense, but art has a meaning, an actuall thought behind it.
Thats a craft. And i am a tradesman myself, so i am in no way disrespecting, but i am tired of hearing people naming basic craftsmansship as art. It devalues art and the thousands of people who do this on a daily basis with little recognition
African traditional clothing is so colorful and vibrant. I wish they would mention what kind of fabric is used in the video
🤔 Batik? Or did you mean like cotton?
@@NiKiMa023 yes the actual material
@@inwiththenew414 with my limited knowledge, African cloths are usually treated cotton fabric
@Adam Nelson what's the connection between islam and cotton? Thx❤
@@john-ic5pz it's a typo
Muslin not Muslim
Come on now🙄
The purple one he’s wearing is sick I would definitely wear that pattern.
Это типо рабочая
When I was in middle school, I joined our art club. My teacher had taught us the wax stamp method for dyeing fabric, and lemme tell you, it was NOT easy 😭. If you put the wax on too thick, it would have a hard time coming off but, if you put it on too thin the dye would seep through. But after practicing for a while and then making a shirt, it was pretty cool to see the designs
How was the wax removed at the end ?
@@mamabear3428i think with hot water.
My culture also have batik but im not really sure with arts n stuff
@@adylaar6708 only other way i could think of is with an iron but that would take some work.
I only quilt and make art with African and Indian batiks which I love because even if you buy the same color and pattern twice, they are never exactly the same. I can use one yard of brown for 12 dolls and they will all have slightly different skin tone, it’s so lovely.
Do you buy the fabrics online? I tried to find some actually black owned, genuine African fabric for a doll once, and I had no luck.
Batik is one of my favorite dying techniques, so gorgeous
I’m surprised the narrator didn’t go into “THIS IS A DYING ART AND MUSA IS THE LAST ONE IN HIS VILLAGE TO DO THIS TECHNIQUE AND SINGLE HANDEDLY UPHOLDING WEST AFRICAN CULTURE”
🤦♂️
Dying as in dye.
Because it's not a dying art and these techniques are common worldwide lol
@@raerohan4241 I heard Africa barely invented the wheel last year
Thank you
We also have this kind of tie dyeing technique in our culture in India called ‘Bandhani’. It is prevalent mainly in the western part of India in the State of Gujarat.
Mans wearing his best colors and pattern on his shirt as a flex AND an advertisement. He's got skills for sure 👌🏻
Beautiful work, beautiful people, beautiful culture!
Professional graphics designer
Love how batik is used all over india and well as Indonesia as well. One world 🌎❤️
You meant to say, I love how batik is used all around the world not just India or Indonesia.
@Kilgor Batik is an international treasure. World leaders at the UN wear batik occasionally.
Hand drawn batik patterned silk fabric can cost hundreds of USD for a couple of meters, maybe only enough to make one sized L shirt. Anyone who buy that certainly isn't poor.
@Kilgor so ? Are the only things of value ones that cost an arm and a leg ?
@@kilgor5793 That is very pricey for fabric. Seems you haven't realised you can't see any clothing with just 1 foot of fabric. You need almost 26 feet of fabric to make one shirt, which per your price would make _just_ the raw material cost about 450 USD 😂
@Kilgor for indonesian batik, they're cost came from material, and the design. Printed fabric are cheap, stamped wax are more expensive and written batik using small "wax pen" are usually the most expensive, double sided patern means twice the work and Multiple color means Multiple process all over again. The details are also a factor with Multiple sized wax pen.
Yeah, it could cost thousands of dollars with each one is personalized and takes months to make.
I never noticed that the African textile design is a version of tie dieing. So cool!
that is some true craftsmanship! I hope the workers get paid well for their designs.
I’m sure that in Africa they do 🥴
Yes, because it's so hard to put wax on cloth and dip it in ink...such "craftmanship". Surely this compares to making an intricate timepiece
Loved watching this! A true artisan. I wonder where we can purchase these fabrics??
He's in Gambia
@@miro6017 What? I just asked a simple question. What does that have to do with likes?
@@miro6017 I looked in the comments to see if there was a link to purchase the fabric, so I’m not sure why it seems so unbelievable that someone might want to buy them online if that were an option.
It would be super cool to get fabric that is hand dyed like this and have a skirt made from it.
I would love to know this too!!!
Also…not sure what this person is talking about “likes” for.
@@miro6017 are you assuming again that everyone's a useless pos like you? Tststs.
I make my own clothes and would love to send him a pallet of my favourite colours and to go crazy for me with his craft after we agreed on a price.
This is so dope! A true craftsman, understanding his trade to the point he makes his own tools!!
Did this in high school art class. We used these pens with a resevoir for the wax (used these to decorate Easter eggs too, Hungarian art craft). After dying, we used an iron over newspaper on the cloth to melt the wax (newspaper absorbed the wax). It was a great project!
Imagine if everyone did something they were actually skilled in regardless of how much money they make.
That's kinda what we do right now.
@@MeanBeanComedy There's plenty of people out there doing something else than what they love and would be great at doing.
Students, workers, and certain home carers are in their professions/life styles that for example parents, culture and religion have pressured them into. Others just go to the first, maybe only, job they can get in order to support their kids.
Everyone who can choose are actually rather privileged, if you think about it.
It would be cool to see if everyone got to choose whatever they do with a set income for some years. I wonder how many people would go back to other jobs that don't really fit them when it ends.
@@IfYouMeetAWolf People work jobs others will pay them to work. We need food and resources to survive. Ignoring that and choosing something others don't value enough to pay for is foolish.
Also, high-skill brings the most money, so people who are making more are usually also higher-skilled, so they're more correlated than not.
@@MeanBeanComedy skill does not equal income. It simply does not. The engineers of a company are more knowledgeable and skilled than their CEO, same with the researchers. But they don’t make that kind of money.
It’s fairly across the board like this in every industry. The people with the skills make someone else money.
Wow that is awesome. I love seeing the work of others and the way people do things. ❤
That’s awesome!!!! What an amazing way to tie dye!!
I love the carethat is used in creating these pieces. Such a hard wording and dedicated people. ❤
this is much more beautiful than anything you can buy in western stores. we gotta get back to old-school traditional arts, its way better for society and the world as whole
Beautiful artistry
Most beautiful technique! Love this 💓
Wow. Absolutely stunning work! He is a true artist. ❤❤❤
batik designs are always so pretty
Wow so cool😍 awesome work and even the shirt he's wearing has super cool design 😍❤️👏👏
That’s so cool keep up the good work
WOW always thought the patterns gets woven in, but this is the easy route for perfect mass duplications 😮❤
Beautiful! He is an artist. ❤
Wow, this is amazing!
Where can i buy it?
batik is very fun to do, i have done it in my textiles exam
I wish to see all these ancient, classic tradesmen survive. Cobblers. Hat makers. All of em.
Very cool 😎
That’s actually clever , Authentic looking and not terrible like half of what tiltokers make
Thank you, Musa, for helping to make the world beautiful.
I love his shirt!!
Batik is the the Indonesian name. The Dutch took Batik wax clothing from Indonesia to West Africa several hundred years ago. In English speaking West African countries(and I assume Francophone African countries) the wax is called Hollandais(pronounced "haw-land-iz" in English speaking African countries), short for wax hollandais(french for Dutch wax) which was what Europeans called Batik wax when it was introduced to them.
Wow tie dye came from Africa
it's fascinating that almost every culture has their own version of tie dye 😁
I know isn’t it.
I quilt and batik fabrics are my absolute favorite! The craftsmanship that goes into making this fabric is amazing and truly appreciated by those of us who are able to use it. ❤
Absolutely incredible I have never seen tie-dye designs that intricate in my life what amazing, beautiful talent❤🎉❤
That short he’s wearing is insane.. didn’t know tie dye could produce patterns like that!
Yes, there are many tie and dye techniques and hand block print techniques... Also mud resistance technique, wax resistance... Ect. Bandhani is a little different from batik... Bandhani is a tie & dye technique n batik is a wex resistance dyeing technique...
The design on the shirt of this guy is shibori which is also one of the tie & dye techniques.
These same techniques are commonly used by Indian traditional artisans for centuries...especially in Rajasthan and Gujarat are very famous for this technique.
some research suggests that these techniques were also used during Indus valley civilisation.
Sry for my bad English... N if anyone has any questions about any of these dyeing techniques feel free to ask anytime...
Thank you. 😊
I researched this when I was working on a project about west Africa and it's cool as heck. They have heavily pigmented muds that they use too, to create mud cloth. Human innovation and artistry is so amazing ❤️
Just one more thing I didn’t know had it’s origins in Africa. Simply beautiful
African clothing like this is probably some of the most beautiful clothes you can find in my opinion
Some of the most beautiful fabrics I've ever seen has been in a few different African countries. There is something about them that just gives me such joy!
Wow, this just unlocked a long forgotten memory! In high school back in the ‘80s i had to do a batik project for one of my classes, it was so much fun and all the fabrics came out so beautiful
Hand stamped batik fabric is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Wow the wax technique to preventing dye to absorbed in design? Amazing. I saw this on another continent too but i love both continents design
The first tie dye I've seen that actually looks pretty
The beginning looks like Predator tending to his newly acquired trophy backbone.
Tie and Dye is one, Batik is another related by coloring fabric. There is tieing and there is melted wax dyeing.
This is wonderful to watch. I hope this skill is handed down to the next generation. Beautiful fabrics.
I traveled to Africa and the cloth, art and people are some of the most beautiful in the world!
This is beautiful...... love love Thank You Mr Musa for his creativity 💕
This is genius. This type of technique never would of crossed my mind. I've always used rubber bands but that can easily lead to color bleeding. The way he did it would help with that. Plus it'd be easier to make more intricate designs. I wonder if theirs a way to draw with the wax so even more designs can be made.
I love batik fabrics. I never knew how they were made. Super cool!
This man is leaving a legacy of amazing human hand skills! God blessed him with an awesome soul purpose❤
When we did the practicals on tie n dye n batik in middle school, I enjoyed it.
Each person brought individual materials for themselves. I enjoyed the process but the outcome more.
A strong name and a strong technique, may this man prosper for his work
That so cool Having anything handmade today has extra value.He doing beautiful designs.Hopefully he will pass his knowledge to younger generations.I got one made in 1970 -1980 tis with motifs of old tribal musks and its really unique
I've loved Batik since the 60's!!
I love the African batik fabrics they're just lovely xx
Love people who are invested in there craft
I loved " painting" with wax..these are fantastic block prints.
Thats actually a really cool technique i dont think alot of people would have thought respect for making the tools too making stuff out of wood is difficult especially if its supposed to look a certain way
the wax thing is literally genius
This is a true artist! Love the vibrancy of the colors. Thank you for sharing so others can see this amazing talent that took generations to build. ❤
I love learning about different cultures.
This is so cool
Tie dying has been here sisnce for ever different cultures using different ways of satisfying their needs
Gosh that’s gorgeous! I’m an art student from the US and just had my thesis show. I’m an animator and illustrator, but a few of my friends are textile artists and one did a series where he dyed a whole bunch of different yarns based on techniques he researched about how other countries use natural dyes. It was so cool and the yarns he made were gorgeous. It’s always so cool seeing how people make art that’s so different from what I make. 💕
I don't even wear stuff like that, and I think those designs look amazing 😍 he definitely has found his passion .
Wow imagine sending ones own design, I would be honored to have a craftsman do such work for me. To be passed down for generations.😊
Wow, so that's how African people have awesome clothing 🤘😝🤘
Absolutely Beautiful fabrics!!!Such talent!!
Wow, this is so cool to fully understand how far history can extend. In the Bahamas, this method of dyeing textiles is also used for a custom Androsian Batik Fabric.
Nice to see they are working hard to improve their quality of life.
Jesus
@@TheDirtyLuigis wait, how do you know my name?
So thats how those prints are done❤
I now, really appreciate, and will now carefully choose certain prints or dye's for my dresses.❤
I made batik fabric for a school art project. They were my favourite art classes that I ever took. I wish I still had my piece.
I was reading a book in a fictional setting describing this technique and I couldn't for the life of me visualise it in my head. Thank you for setting an image to it
I like how he either just happen to where an amazing shirt or made sure to wear his fav
I could listen to this for hours
Truly amazing! much love to all that appreciated this work of art! May God bless all of you!
Utterly gorgeous!!
That is gorgeous. I always wondered how such fluid shapes were able to get into the fabric. I thought it was some kind of bleaching effect and necer would have guessed it was wax. Genius.
THATS HOW THEY DO IT? Damn that pin strips method is cool!
I took a batik class in high school. It was so fun! It was my last class of the day and right after lunch period. My friend had a van that we drove to the park at lunch. I bet you can guess what we did, lol... So it made the class even funner. Now that I think about it, all my art classes were after lunch. 🤣 The school must have known how much fun I had. Lol... I'm still an artist to this day and I'm sure most artists agree that's the best way to go.
As a Senegalese/Gambian, this made me proud ❤❤🇬🇲🇬🇲🇸🇳🇸🇳
Such beautiful design and unique way to create them.
I would love a couple of his pieces. Looks amazing
Reminds me of how some easter eggs use wax for you to draw on, and you submerge the egg into the dye, and only the waxed parts stay white. Super cool!!
Absolutely gorgeous
I lived in W Africa for several years and my spouse has worked all over Africa for 2 decades. Awesome, awesome fabrics, so different from the various areas.
Fantastic! I love Batik!
Ay batik is really famous here in Bengal and Bangladesh, glad to see it's reach to our African brothers.❤