I NEVER KNEW IT WAS MADE LIKE THIS! Making Batik Fabric in Ghana | Things to do in Accra

[@TheAcheampongFamily]

This is so great ! You choose a beautiful pattern, what a great gift experience ❤️🎁 happy birthday to mom 🎈

[@abby-a]

At 3:50, 10:19, & 11:30 I *love* how they are using adrinka symbols on the fabric cloth. I just *love* adrinka symbols and what they stand for. ❤💛💚 😊😊

[@lyricalisaac2003]

Adinkra is pride of Ghana...love it - we own it!...and every African should promote it in every way...be it fashion prints, teaching it down to our kids, displaying them on every surface possible lol

[@afropeanmonika]

Beautiful colours and patterns. African designs are very special indeed. Well done. 👌🏼

[@lily-annelaine6822]

This video is fantastic. What a great activity to promote in Ghana💗. Top of my list on my next long over due trip, is a session to make my new beach sarong. I also love your travel packages for Ghana. Thanks for being such an amazing ambassador for Ghana 💗🌼💗🌼💗. Lily fellow British born Ghanaian x

[@leahg6615]

This looks like so much fun! I would love to do this whenever I go back to Ghana

[@nappyscribe1987]

That was a beautiful design you made. I want to go to Ghana!

[@gbadzeme]

Your video is awesome. Tons of emotions for me My Aunt Mrs Esther Ocloo used to make batik in Ghana when I was little over 40 years ago . 🥰

[@asantewaa391]

Mrs Ocloo was the first woman to produce palmnut soup in a can: Nkulenu. She is an icon.

[@D_Batik_Gallery]

This is beautiful!! The process could be stressful, I always see the stress on my trainees, especially if it's a first time experience for them, but the results are always magical!! You obviously had a fun experience. Well done❤

[@elwalker9034]

Both look really great. Love process videos.

[@sefako2286]

I love your educational videos, thank you 😊 🙏

[@ProfKwame]

Awesome! Love how it turned out!

[@RoyaIboy]

Batick maker was like: "Today is your birthday, you must dye". Hahaha!

[@elisobais]

You did amazing!

[@VanessaKanbi]

Thank you!

[@stitchlightly5995]

how funny finding this video right after watching enyo bruku's videos. I studied batik at university and it was the focus of my thesis. Such a beautiful process.

[@EdwardSmart]

Great Step by Step Tutorial!

[@VanessaKanbi]

Thank you

[@abby-a]

You did a good job vanessa ❤

[@O-c25]

Eeeeish Vanessa is cooking, madam shef

[@jamesokyere]

In the Akan these adinkra symbols serve as a source of communication especially the aya symbol which stands for endurance and resourcefulness Anyone who wears this symbol suggests that he has endured many adversities and outlasted much difficulty in life. It’s very necessary to know the various signs and get to know the designs you take to a particular event. Sometimes with what you’re wearing it doesn’t go with the theme or the type of event being organized and we the Ashantis, it matters a lot. Thank you for showing Ghana to the world. ❤️😊

[@Yomex1]

I love how you say “em”, so very Scotish. That side very enlightening video thanks.

[@burtisaac1000]

Thanks for sharing your time with batik!

[@beverlysingleton8792]

This was quite enlightening and fun to see. I love creating and this is inspiring to get back to it. You go Sis!💗✨✨

[@rumahbatik17palembang38]

Beautiful colours..Love this,😍

[@doncsay]

this just reminded me of my mother, she used to do this very well

[@maureenkusemererwa1836]

Great stuff

[@haroonghanipuri2862]

Fabulous. Very excited seening African printing being done.

[@haroonghanipuri2862]

In 1969 I have been Exportimg African print fabric to USA.

[@howardcash8301]

Vanessa! BEAUTIFUL Job Ladies! Yeah!

[@vanessaoppong7644]

Nice 💞, I have been there before

[@NatureBoy614]

Excellent Job of it at your first time go Vanessa 😂👍 Batik professional 😂🙏

[@vanessaoppong7644]

The woman was my supervisor

[@dzeivid4413]

Great video. We need promote and appreciate our own more. Will be interesting to explore more sustainable dyes and chemicals for these local productions... Like Microalgae.

[@fashionstylerrique7112]

The Food looking amazing delicious true

[@fashionstylerrique7112]

Have a nice relaxt blessed Day lovely respect full Vanessa

[@beatriceowusuachaw6210]

It is cool doing it

[@susaroun]

Beautiful job!

[@thequoteking7390]

This woman is beautiful and intelligent,🥰❣❣❣🔥

[@sheilahdang11]

yes it will be

[@BeingWolfy]

Nice job! It looks great! I want to try now.

[@moss320m]

Very nice

[@CeciliaCarleen_Stories]

So beautiful Love your dress Vanessa. California 💛

[@drbernardyeboah8590]

It looks fun. I hope one can customize.

[@yahs440]

Love this… I would like to do this the next time I come to Ghana

[@sourcestvghmotherland2381]

Beautiful dye

[@seundami5035]

Wow nice

[@kofiasamoah6867]

Beautiful

[@evelynfreku292]

Love to learn this. Nice video

[@امبشير-ش5ذ]

You are welcome

[@infronttv4271]

Wow it looks very nice. I have to get myself some

[@simonhariman352]

Wonderful video, thank you. Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand which 2 white powders were added after the color dye? Would really love to have a short answer 😊 So keen on trying it myself.

[@sharmliyanasuriya8586]

Beautiful. Just want to know out of what the table you lay the cloth on is made of?

[@NatureBoy614]

I’m having fun watch Batik now with Vanessa 😜

[@lisajr1926]

Beautiful experience with lovely people and I'm just wondering what's inside the bowl of water that she put the sponge in and what are those white powder which mixed with dye color, please

[@onenationunderblack]

Nice Job!!!! LOVE IT!!!

[@0tismadaline]

This is a fantastic video and very Educative wow,thanks for sharing 👏

[@nanammm777]

Wow! this is so Beautiful 🗝️⭐⭐⭐🌈🌈🌈💪🏾

[@AmegboeJerome-we3vx]

Yh Nice to see ☺🙂😃😁

[@LadyMirella2u]

Hi Vanessa! I’m doing a write up on African print fabrics and it’s origin and I wanted to know if it was ok for me to showcase your video on doing this batik on my page. Please let me know if it’s ok. Thanking you in anticipation.

[@b.anthony8592]

Great job!👍

[@fatukallon342]

I want to learn how to make Gara and batic

[@thesoundofaccrapodcast]

Awesome!

[@westwilliamesekhaigbe4910]

Nice

[@KumariPushpa-m3r]

I am from sri lanka i need to know what kind of stamp you use for stamp spnoge i men

[@mbonayosopi-chandelle3705]

It’s really beautiful 😊… do you happen to know the names of the powders and the wax they’ve used ?

[@kafayathameed7883]

I want to learn batik pls

[@westwilliamesekhaigbe4910]

Lovely

[@JulietteKatrawi-v2j]

Bonjour j'aimerai savoir c quelle cire qu'ils utilisent merci.

[@NaturalMackie]

Love it! 🥰🖤

[@XOXOPriscilla]

great video, now i want to take a class :-)

[@sandraetrue-ellis7914]

Hi Vanessa this video is really informative. How can we get a chance to make some on our next holiday?

[@biolalydia7729]

Please do you added water to the wax, why is so watery like that. And should we allow the wax to get cold before dipping the form stamp?

[@deffkidd9088]

another banger

[@VanessaKanbi]

Thank you :)

[@deffkidd9088]

@@VanessaKanbi you're welcome

[@rochellewickramasinghe4003]

Hi. can I know what material is used to make the batik stencil? I'm from Sri Lanka and I'm new to batik as well. here we usually use copper stencils but it costs a fortune. big help if you can reply to this. Thanks.

[@josephopare-abetia9282]

this is cool

[@davidmoss5974]

Hi, I’m wondering the type of wax you use? Is it straight beeswax? Also, what temperature do you heat it to? I’ve been doing batik for many years just teaching myself. I’d like to do a workshop at your studio someday.

[@marciojosecintra6947]

Vanessa 👏👏👏👏👏😘 legal, like 👍 garantido 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@oludolapooludolapo5246]

Thanks for sharing your experience, I love batik and tie and dye.

[@duafefashionandcrafts3607]

What type of cloth is used

[@janeegele-dz9qm]

Could you please tell me the quantity of colour, soda and hydrosulphide needed dye 2yards of a fabric

[@blessingosagie8716]

How is the wax coloured

[@nicoledaughtry5186]

Divine 🌞 ✅✌🏼

[@seundami5035]

What fabric can i use and was the name of the dye

[@Ammasco]

Hi Van, please where in Ghana did you learn this? Can i get the lady's contact?

[@mycrowinn04]

Have been a SUPER BIG FUN of this company and always what to known how to do this in my life. But am from the States. It's my future.

[@k.omalichablackwell5520]

Please give me info about classes coming back in September..

[@mamaknowsbest7864]

Where is she located , I would like to go there ?

[@anananyaumuwi9161]

How to buy phone design for petite from Ghana

[@555125kevin]

👍👍

[@VanessaKanbi]

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[@soldierbill]

💚

[@VanessaKanbi]

🥳

[@ReallyReis]

Where is this though?

[@rangukumar2895]

Mam spange stamp process

[@aadwoaaa]

❤️

[@mapules4600]

We black women ,can survive anywhere

[@Humble_African]

What does the pattern mean though?

[@pouponcrazycat5987]

I make mine using a tool to make birds

[@AbdulHameed-g8n]

Hiok

[@natty.roots.423]

It's been there before mid 19th century.

[@VanessaKanbi]

Perhaps its unclear as to how long its been in West Africa. When searching it seems it has origins in Indonesia & perhaps Egypt. Anyway feel free to add any info as I don't know it all lol.

[@PatriciaAbijah]

Even before

[@jenn.a]

Ghanaians and please are in bondage. Yes please, no please, I am fine please😂😂😂😂. We love it anyways 😂

[@dnealriggah1934]

We are not a peaceful country by accident. I don't call it bondage.

[@urbnctrl]

It came from Indonesia! ❤

[@marklordowusu]

Hi can you kindly drop the Batik woman's contact info ?.... I really wanna learn how to make Batik with her

[@teddymuhumuza5213]

I need this mama's address in Ghana please

[@elombirera4687]

Je peux avoir leur contact

[@mapules4600]

I can imagine her using all those chemicals without wearing musk on

[@larrysq8937]

You see? But the Babylon asking us to wear mask and get vaccinated for their problems.

[@biolalydia7729]

Please do they add water to the wax, why is so watery like that

[@serpentlaw5961]

*Actually batik and clay-block, metal-wiresheet-block and wood-block printing were already known in ancient Egypt, so therefore is was used in Africa even before Egypt was born as a colored and multi-mixed culture. To reduce Africa's age in print to just the 19th century is a downright insult! Surely Africa lost a lot of it's arts due to White racist slave trade and terrorism.*

[@bluebell3720]

Batik is the use of wax originated in Indonese I cant find any articles claiming Egypt had a tradition of doing this The dutch developed the technique but Indonesia didn't like their style of cloth but west Africa did There is nothing to suggest this was a technique there previously Adire is tie dying they have a long tradition of tie dying then adding the resist was introduced Tie dying is believed to have started in china but became very popular in Japan I always think of hippies assosiated with tie dye

[@serpentlaw5961]

​@@bluebell3720 You cannot contradict people in a culture they were brought up in- Wax dyeing is extremely old and always existed in African and Asia. In fact the wax used in Africa and Dutch dyeing is an African lacquer which washes out of the garment with salt, as salt fixates the dye and disperses the wax. In fact ancient Chinese schoolbooks were wax printed, - the ancient form of silkscreen printing.

[@bluebell3720]

@@serpentlaw5961 Ok so explain why you think it was a tradition in Egypt When there's no account of it anywhere The only reference to African print west Africa was that it was introduced by the Dutch who learnt it from Indonesia The Dutch then introduced copper plates I haven't seen anyone dispute this I cant find anything saying the cloth is layered in lacquer

[@serpentlaw5961]

​@@bluebell3720 You are so undereducated. Linen and Cotton came from Africa. The famous volumenous Khaftans of the African Ife, Edo and Igbo were all printed with the pigments that the Europeans exported later to Europe during slavery. Africans did not walk around naked all the time. In fact Morocco also made creppe silk and the rich pigment colors that the Berbers use did not come from the Dutch. The Egyptian bamboo silk is the same type made in China, and the colors and the arabesques that are printed on them did not come from cheese-eating Dutch colonial incest. So, if you are hoping to find references in former colonial literature, you will search until you drop because colonial powers will never admit having learned print from Morocco, Algiers or Egypt (and these are in AFRICA). Moroccans are AFRICANS too, and they have Moroan admixture (from Meröe in the South), and their Black Califs wore PRINTED silk! The tiles in all North African mosques are PRINTED with pigments, and the same prints were used on fabrics. The printing blocks in North Africa predate Holland and the Dutch. Oriental Africa is OLDER than little Holland. ...not even the Benin Bronzes were known of prior to the recent exposées when private old colonial collectors had given them to museums after deceasing. efore that, there were no hints of African grand culture. Holland didn't even exist when African invented PAPER!

[@rightself7326]

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