Name/Title
Textile ascendancies : aesthetics, production, and trade in Northern NigeriaEntry/Object ID
TS1419.N54.N63Description
Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. This book 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 to anthropologists 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.Lexicon
Search Terms
textile fabrics--nigeria, textile industry, textile industry and fabrics, textile industry--africa, textile industry--nigeriaBook Details
Author
Elisha P. Renne, Salihu MaiwadaPublisher
University of Michigan PressDate Published
2020Call No.
TS1419.N54.N63ISBN
472054449, 9780472054442Notes
Length: 212