African Mudcloth Designs & Crowquill Pen & Ink Project

African Mudcloth Designs &

Crowquill Pen & Ink Project

by Elizabeth Pike

​Different areas in Africa has it's own unique design and way of creating textiles.

​Textiles are a type of cloth or woven fabric.

For example....​

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• ​Kente Cloth

• T​he Asante people of the Akan kingdom in what is now Ghana. The word "kente" actually translates to "handwoven cloth" in the Twi language of the Akan people

​Kuba Cloth

• ​The People of Bakuba kingdom

• ​present day Democratic Republic of Congo

​African Mudcloth?

• ​ It is a traditional Malian fabric that is dyed with fermented mud and plant dyes.

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• ​Historically, the cloth is sun-dried then painted repeatedly with fermented mud, which chemically reacts with the tree leaves and leaves the cloth a rich brown even after the mud is washed off.

Multiple Choice

What are textiles?

• a type of cloth or woven fabric

• A type of texting

​How it is made video. (click to watch)

Multiple Select

Click all answers that apply. What is one way Mudcloth is made today?

• By soaking a cloth in mud fermented in bran

• by using different dyes from the earth to create different colors

• by adding motifs (symbols) with a mixture of soap and bleach

• none of the answers

The African Mudcloth Project​

What you will be creating in class​

​To start...

• ​You will be learning about African textiles and Mudcloth designs

• You will be recreating ​pattern and texture (elements of art) with a focus on creating symbols that reflect you.

​You will be creating a key for your Mudcloth design.

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​The key has symbols that are in your "mudcloth".

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​Those symbols represent you, your family, your friends, etc...

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​So, think of things that you do outside of school, hobby's, clubs, organizations, churches, gaming, music, food, and things you do with friends & family.

​There will be 4 symbols in you Mudcloth 'key"

​From that key...

• ​You will divide you paper into 3-4 sections

• ​You will be incorporating different ink patterns in each section

• ​You will be incorporating items from your key into the design (either in the patterns themselves or separatley or both).

Open Ended

Type in your answer. How is your Mudcloth "key' going to be incorporated into your Mudcloth design.

Multiple Choice

How many symbols will be in your key?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a symbol?

• It is a musical instrument

• an image that represents a different idea

• the name of the latest k-pop group

• the name of an artist for this assignment

Now start thinking about what symbols you want for your Mudcloth design.​

​The End