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Article: Judith A. Byfield, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940.(Book Review)
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JUDITH A. BYFIELD, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 600 4; hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 650 0); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (paperback US$24.95 ISBN 0 32507 008 3; hard covers US$64.95, ISBN 0 32507 009 1). 2002, 304 pp.
Byfield has produced an excellent historical study on the emergence, consolidation and (temporarily) crises of the adire cloth industry in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Adire is the Yoruba name for indigo resist-dyed textiles, often on imported cotton cloth. Women buy and process the raw materials, dye the ...