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Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria

Elisha P. Renne and Salihu Maiwada, Editors
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Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria examines this dramatic change in textile aesthetics, technologies, and social values in order to explain the extraordinary shift in textile demand, production, and trade.

Textile Ascendancies provides information for the study of the demise of textile manufacturing outside Nigeria. The book also suggests the conundrum considered by George Orwell concerning the benefits and disadvantages of "mechanical progress," and digital progress, for human existence. While textile mill workers in northern Nigeria were proud to participate in the mechanization of weaving, the "tendency for the mechanization of the world" represented by more efficient looms and printing equipment in China has contributed to the closing of Nigerian mills and unemployment.

Textile Ascendancies will appeal toanthropologists for its analyses of social identity as well as how the ethnic identity of consumers influences continued handwoven textile production. The consideration of aesthetics and fashionable dress will appeal to specialists in textiles and clothing. It will be useful to economic historians for the comparative analysis of textile manufacturing decline in the 21st century. It will also be of interest to those thinking about global futures, about digitalization, and how new ways of making cloth and clothing may provide both employment and environmentally sound production practices.

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2020
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-12663-7 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05444-2 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07444-0 (hardcover)
Series
  • African Perspectives
Subject
  • Economics
  • Art:Art Theory
  • African Studies

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Fig04_01. A line of textile mill workers with spindles producing thread for weaving.

Workers at Nortex spinning mill Kaduna

From Chapter 4

Fig. 4.1. Workers at the Nortex (Nig) Limited mill in Kaduna, overseeing spindles producing yarn, November 14, 1962. (Photograph by Bello, courtesy of the Kaduna State Ministry of Information.)

Black and white photograph showing Kaduna family members wearing cotton print garments.

Photograph of family wearing cotton print textiles

From Introduction

Studio family photograph from Kaduna depicting Hajiya Amina and her children wearing fashionable cotton print textiles with different designs, Kaduna, 1970 (photograph of photograph taken by E. Renne).

Artist’s depiction of future Kaduna Textiles Limited mill.

Kaduna Textiles Limited mill, Kaduna

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Artist’s depiction of the mill to be constructed at Kaduna, 1955 (courtesy of the David Whitehead & Sons archival collection).

Cotton textile sample swatch printed in Kaduna.

Kaduna Textiles Ltd cloth samples

From Chapter 4

Kaduna textile sample swatches, from and May 2001 (left) and October 1997 (right), printed at the Northern Nigerian Textiles Mill (photograph by E. P. Renne, courtesy of Kaduna Textiles Ltd, Kaduna).

Screen-printing textiles at the Northern Nigerian Textiles Mill, Kaduna.

Waziri screen-printing at NNT mill Kaduna

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Mohammadu Yahaya Waziri lining up the screen (registering) for screen-printing textiles at the Northern Nigerian Textiles Mill in Kaduna, 1983 (photograph courtesy of Mohammadu Yahaya Waziri).

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