Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)

Indigo dyeing was an essential element of the cotton-based textile industry, practised in dozens of workshops in North Benin on the eve of the colonial occupation. The activity lasted during the first half of the 20th century, then began to decline until its complete disappearance in the early 1990s...

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Autor principal:	Olivier P. Gosselain
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Publicado:	OpenEdition 2021
Materias:	indigo dyeing textile ethnography of techniques field methods Archaeology CC1-960 History of the arts NX440-632
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9d4d017d6ec94bc592ddd3605020001f2021-12-02T10:47:42ZQuand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)2431-204510.4000/aaa.3178https://doaj.org/article/9d4d017d6ec94bc592ddd3605020001f2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/aaa/3178https://doaj.org/toc/2431-2045Indigo dyeing was an essential element of the cotton-based textile industry, practised in dozens of workshops in North Benin on the eve of the colonial occupation. The activity lasted during the first half of the 20th century, then began to decline until its complete disappearance in the early 1990s. Since 2011, I have been trying to document dyeing practices in North Benin, through interviews with former dyers and visits to the sites of workshops. The aim is to document the technical processes, their socio-economic framework and their historical trajectory. Since 2020, this research has been integrated into a more ambitious project devoted to the entire textile industry and intended to produce visual archives for the British Museum’s “Endangered Material Knowledge Programme”. In this paper, I present the main findings of the fieldwork, focusing first on the methods used to document a lost technique and then providing an overview of the technical processes and context in which indigo dyeing was practiced.Olivier P. GosselainOpenEditionarticleindigo dyeingtextileethnography of techniquesfield methodsArchaeologyCC1-960History of the artsNX440-632ENFRAfrique Archéologie Arts, Vol 17, Pp 33-54 (2021)
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description	Indigo dyeing was an essential element of the cotton-based textile industry, practised in dozens of workshops in North Benin on the eve of the colonial occupation. The activity lasted during the first half of the 20th century, then began to decline until its complete disappearance in the early 1990s. Since 2011, I have been trying to document dyeing practices in North Benin, through interviews with former dyers and visits to the sites of workshops. The aim is to document the technical processes, their socio-economic framework and their historical trajectory. Since 2020, this research has been integrated into a more ambitious project devoted to the entire textile industry and intended to produce visual archives for the British Museum’s “Endangered Material Knowledge Programme”. In this paper, I present the main findings of the fieldwork, focusing first on the methods used to document a lost technique and then providing an overview of the technical processes and context in which indigo dyeing was practiced.
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title	Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)
title_short	Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)
title_full	Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)
title_fullStr	Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)
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Quand la technique n’est plus là. Documenter la teinture à l’indigo au Nord Bénin (xixe-xxe siècles)

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