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Description: | This light cotton fabric is printed with a West African design and was bought from a textiles shop in Stoke Newington, East London. It was made using a wax-printing process, where wax is block printed onto the surface of the fabric before dyeing so some areas of the fabric 'resist' the dye, creating a pattern. Wax printed cloth is seen to be superior, and this cloth has had the words 'english wax' printed at the border as proof of quality. Dyed in green, blue and brown, this fabric has a stylised repeating pattern of cocoa pods and leaves. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Hackney Museum | Rights holder: | Hackney Museum | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities | Temporal: | 1995-2000 | Source: | Hackney Museum | Creator: | ABC | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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