Friday, 29 July 2011

lace

Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making is an ancient craft. True lace was not made until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. A true lace is created when a thread is looped, twisted or braided to other threads independently from a backing fabric.
Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread. Manufactured lace may be made of synthetic fiber. A few modern artists make lace with a fine copper or silver wire instead of thread.

seersucker

Seersucker is a thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped or checkered, used to make clothing for spring and summer wear. The word came into English from Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi), which originates from the Persian words "shir o shekar", meaning "milk and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth texture of milk and the bumpy texture of sugar. Seersucker is woven in such a way that some threads bunch together, giving the fabric a wrinkled appearance in places. This feature causes the fabric to be mostly held away from the skin when worn, facilitating heat dissipation and air circulation. It also means that pressing is not necessary.
Common items of clothing made from seersucker include suits, shorts, and robes. The most common colors for it are white and blue; however, it is produced in a wide variety of colors, usually alternating colored stripes and puckered white stripes slightly wider than pin stripes.

Thursday, 28 July 2011

african slavery trade

Systems of servitude and slavery in African societies was common in many parts of Africa, as it was in most of the ancient world. In most African societies the enslaved people were indentured servants fully integrated into the society. When the Atlantic slave trade began, many local slave systems changed and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa.

tribal houses

Tribal house is a subgenre of house music similar in structure to deep house, but providing elements of ethnic or indigenous musical percussions (typically conga drums or its synthesized derivative). The genre remains one of the most minimalist in the history of electronic dance music since the appearance of house in the mid-eighties and up to the recent days.

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Clothing

Tribal clothing is referred to as the dressing fashion or style of the tribes.
It is very ancient trend or fashion which is near to extinction. So to keep them alive here is a blog which will take everyone to ancient lifestyle and how it fits to today's world.

Some of the famous clothing are:



 

To see more ancient designs click here

Tribes

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.


Many anthropologists use the term tribal society to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups .
Some theorists hold that tribes represent a stage in social evolution intermediate between bands and states. Other theorists argue that tribes developed after, and must be understood in terms of their relationship to, states.