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Adinkra: Printed Ceremonial Cloths of Ghana |
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All the designs and motifs on the printed ceremonial cloths of Ghana have symbolic meaning and significance. This film, shot in Ghana explores and explains the designs as well as showing in detail the carving, dyeing and printing processes.
DVD Chapters
- Making Adinkra Print Dye
- Carving the Adinkra Stamps
- Printing Adinkra
- Dyeing Funeral Cloths
- Embroidered and Woven Joins
- Adinkra Designs
Production and commentary by Janet Willoughby
35 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Ajrakh: Mordant Resist, Batik, and Tie Dye |
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The Complex process of producing cloth by mordant resist was practiced for more than a thousand years in India. Now Ajrakh remains the last cloth to be made by this method. The detailed patterns of Ajrakh were introduced by the Moghuls and are said to be of Sufi origin.
Produced by men of Muslim communities, the cloth is used by them for shawls, lunghis and turbans. This film shows in detail the making of the hand carved blocks and the mordant resist dyed process in Damadka.
This film also includes a fascinating section on block printing with wax and the tying of beautiful saris.
DVD Chapters
- Carving Blocks
- Preparing the Cloth
- Printing Ajrakh
- Dyeing Ajrakh
- Batik
- Tie Dye
Production and commentary by Janet Willboughby
57 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Backstrap Weaving: Traditional Weaving in Mexico and Guatemala |
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Nowhere are the skills of backstrap weaving so widely practiced as in Guatemala and Mexico. Everywhere weavers can be seen sitting down to weave, under a tree, in front of houses, inside houses.
Complex and colorful designs reflecting thousands of years of tradition and skill are still produced from a few sticks and balls of yarn. This film unravels the secrets of backstrap weaving and shows how the ancient Amerindian cultures survive through it.
DVD Chapters
- Warping for 4 Selvedge
- Weaving
- Warp Faced Pick-Up
- Brocade- San Mateo del Mar
- Brocade- Tenjapa
- Brocade- Todos Santos
- Brocade- Aguas Calientes
Production and commentary by Janet Willoughby
59 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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In Java a rich tradition of complex batik artistry grew up around the court life of the Sultans. Throughout Java this was extended and developed. It is still practiced widely today both as a means of earning a living and to provide traditional daily costumes which are worn in Java and Indonesia.
This film shows batik processes in the traditional centers of Jogjakarta, Solo and Cirebon. With footage of the traditional costumes, wax application with Chantung and stamps.
DVD Chapters
- Cap and Canting
- Cap and Combination Batik
- Tulis Batik
- Indigo/Soga Tulis Batik
Production and commentary by Janet Willoughby
45 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Sumba, in Indonesia, still produces complex and superb quality ikats with unique and original design. This film shows how the ikats are woven in traditional villages to produce cloths which are still worn for ceremonial occasions.
DVD Chapters
- Spinning
- Tying
- Dyeing
- Weaving
- Designs
- Weaving Pau Cloth
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
57 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Kalagas: Burmese Embroidered Tapestries |
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The padded embroideries of Burma are virtually unique. Their combination of mythical figures and animala, sequins, stones and mirrors create hangings unlike any others. The tradition flowered in the reign of King Mindon in the 1840's and kalagas became an inegral part of the adornment of palaces and Buddhist temples and monasteries.
Although Burma has been largely inaccessible for 50 years, families continue to work on producing kalagas of high quality. This film shows in detail the processes of producing kalagas in and around Mandalay, Burma. Also shown are the making of puppet costumes and motifs and designs from old kalagas.
DVD Chapters
- Making a Kalaga
- Puppet Costumes
- Motifs and Designs
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Mirror Work & Embroideries of Kutch, India |
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The Indian decorative embroidery art of Mirror Work (shisha) is thought to have been developed by the wife of Shah Jahan who built the Taj Mahal in her honour.
Since the time of the Moghuls the women of Gujarat have continued to use mirrors in their embroideries. This film shows in detail how the mirrors are produced in small furnaces and how the dowry embroidery of blouses and dress fronts, shawls, bedding covers, jewellery bags and quilts is sewn.
These are worn and used by Ahir, Rabari, Harijans, Jats and Sodha Rajputs: nomadic, herding Muslims and Hindu communities.
DVD Chapters
- Making the Mirrors
- Bhirendiara- Sewing the mirrors
- Hodka-Cutout applique
- Dhanate- Ahir embroidery
- Sumrasar Sheik- Jat embroider
- Pragpar- Detached interlacing
- Soof Embroidery
- Patchwork quilting
- Rabari embroidery
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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In old Inca villages in the mountains around the Sacred Valley near Cusco and in islands in the middle of Lake Titicaca, men and women still knit hats as part of their traditional costume. Each village has its own unique shape and design of hat.BR>
This film shows men and women knitting hats in the villages of Accha Alta, Chinchero, Pitumarca, and Chahuaytiri in the Cusco area and on the islands of Amantini and Taquile on Lake Titicaca.
This film has been made with the cooperation of the Centre for Traditional Textiles of Cusco and the Titicaca islanders
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
30 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Thai Hilltribe Embroideries |
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Over the last few centuries six quite distinct tribal groups have migrated to live in the mountains of Northern Thailand. They have brough with them their own culture, language and dress. This film shows different dress of the Karen, Lisu, Akha, Yao, Lahu, Blue and White Hmong and how they adorn themselves with an extraordinary variety of embroidery.
DVD Chapters
- Seed Embroidery
- Braids Horizontal/Veritcal Stitch
- Patchwork
- Batik
- Couched and Reverse Applique
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Felt making is one of the oldest textile traditions, first practiced in this region
thousands of years ago. Using the properties of raw wool, material with unique attractions and characteristics is produced.
DVD Chapters
- Preparing the Wool
- Making a Kecce
- Making a Kepenek
- Making a Sikke
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
55 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Traditional Peruvian Weaving |
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High in the mountain valleys around Cusco some of the Peruvian traditions dating back thousands of years are still being carried on. This film takes you into the villages to see men and women spinning, dyeing, warping up, weaving and finishing with woven braids.
DVD Chapters
- Spinning on a Drop Spindle
- Dyeing with Cochineal
- Scaffold Warp
- Complementary Warp Weaving
- Woven Tubular Edging
- Beaded Ribbons
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Isarn has been a cradle of sericulture and silk weaving for thousands of years. This film shows how the processes are still carried on by families in village houses where silkworms are grown and fed on mulberry leaves and the silk is reeled in the traditional way.
DVD Chapters
- Producing Silk
- kat Weaving
- Supplementary Weft Weaving
Production and Commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Today, the skills and techniques of hand spinning are rarely practised even where hand weaving and knitting crafts survive. Cheap, inferior, machine made yarns are now readily available in the markets.
These unique films from locations across the world show some of the surviving traditions of spinning which still produce yarns used to create the world's finest hand made textiles.
DVD Chapters
- Spinning with Animal Fibers
- Spinning with Plant Fibers
Production and commentary by Janet Willoughby
50 minutes
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Price: $48.95
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Double Disc Set
Disc 1: Looms and Warps
Looms in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia and Ghana. Warping for back strap looms, four selvedge weaving, scaffold warp, kilim and kente, silk supplementary weft and cotton supplementary warp.
Disc 2: Weaving Techniques
Warp faced techniques: pick up in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Sumba. Supplementary warp weaving and kente. Finishing a four selvedge weaving. Weft, Central American brocades, silk in Laos and Thailand, Turkish cicim and carpets, Ikat designs: weft, warp and double.
130 minutes
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Price: $79.95
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