Traditional Cloth Making in Kutaber of South Wollo
| dc.contributor.advisor | Sava, Dr. Graziano | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fikre, Zufan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-16T09:48:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:33:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-16T09:48:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:33:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is to describe and document the traditional cloth making process and tools in Kutaber, Woreda of South Wollo Zone. The tools used for traditional cloth making, the processes from raw material collection to weaving and embroidery techniques have been discussed. In addition to the cloth making process, on work traditional chanting (music) and socio cultural functions and implications of traditional clothes were described. The data was collected mainly from kutaber town by interviewing officials, cotton and cloth traders, spinners, weavers, embroiders and by documenting cloth making processes and tools using video and photo Cameras. The study indicates that the majority those who wear traditional clothes currently are elderly men and women. Adult and young men wear 'Buluko' or 'Gabi' on holidays, Worship places and weddings. Women also wear traditional 'kemis' and 'kuta' on religious ceremonies and weddings, however they often wear imported or locally manufactured 'Kemis' and put on 'kuta' or 'Shemma'. The 'Kuta' even is made of factory-manufactured threads as 'Dir' and 'Mag' and the product is called 'Ers Bersu'. Traditional spinning instruments are rarely found in elderly mothers houses. They are not readily available anywhere. Those who spin cotton thread, 'Mag' or sell woven 'Gabi' for their living or some mothers who sometimes spin cotton thread do not roll and apply bow to get clean and fine thufts of cotton but they simply separate cotton seeds with hands and spin which exerts a negative impact on the quality of cloth produced. Spinners and weavers learn the skills from their parents. However they are not transferring same skills to successors because of wider access to modern schools. Children go to school as a result they do not learn spinning or weaving skills. Embroidery has a relatively higher demand; however it is not used on traditional clothes but on clothes made of manufactured thread namely 'Dir Bedir'. This alarming condition necessitates documentation of skills of traditional cloth making and instruments which are heritages of our ancestor's indigenous knowledge, but which are gradually disregarded or neglected by the current generation as boys and girls are not willing to take up their parents' traditional skills of cloth making. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/24126 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa Universiy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Traditional Cloth Making | en_US |
| dc.title | Traditional Cloth Making in Kutaber of South Wollo | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |