From the lesson The History of Tie-Dye
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:14:35 -0000
The Hausa people are best known for their plain dyeing and the few tie-dye patterns that they use are derived feom the Yoruba women of Nigeria who are experts in resist patterning dyeing. The hippie craze for tie-dying is more likely to be due to the Yoruba as dyeing with colours became fashionable among them in the mid 1960’s and may have reached America via the Peace Corps volunteers who were everywhere in Nigeria at that time. Even today the Yorubas still dye with indigo and colours but the Hausa dye with indigo alone.
