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Fulani communities of the West African savannah
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A Fulani weaving tradition that treats the loom, its components, movements, and tools as a symbolic language of creation. The weaver, or maabo, safeguards the meanings of thirty-three fundamental loom pieces and performs ritual words before work. Weaving represents cosmic duality, temporal succession, reciprocal movement, and the passage between known and unknown futures.
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Among the Fulani, the caste weaver is called a maabo and is described as the repository of the secrets of the thirty-three basic pieces of the loom. The frame contains eight principal wooden elements: four vertical pieces associated with the mother elements and the cardinal directions, and four transverse pieces associated with the collateral directions. The weaver occupies the centre, representing primordial humanity at the heart of space.
Before beginning work, the weaver touches each piece of the loom and pronounces the words or litanies corresponding to the forces believed to inhabit them. His movements are therefore more than technical operations. The rhythm of the feet working the pedals recalls the creative Word and expresses the dualism and cyclical alternation present throughout life.
The shuttle is imagined as a boat crossing between the threads of the warp, moving from one bank to the other while unreeling its thread. The woven cloth accumulating around the stick on the weaver's belly represents the past, while the thread not yet woven symbolizes the unknown future. The craft links material production with reflection on time, fate, death, birth, marriage, and renewal.
The extract counts eight movements to and fro in the weaver's activity, corresponding both to the eight pieces of the loom frame and to the eight legs of the mythical spider said to have taught weaving to the ancestor of weavers. The craft thus joins apprenticeship, inherited symbolism, ritual speech, and a cosmological account of perpetual movement.
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Fulani communities of the West African savannah
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
A Fulani weaving tradition that treats the loom, its components, movements, and tools as a symbolic language of creation. The weaver, or maabo, safeguards the meanings of thirty-three fundamental loom pieces and performs ritual words before work. Weaving represents cosmic duality, temporal succession, reciprocal movement, and the passage between known and unknown futures.
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Among the Fulani, the caste weaver is called a maabo and is described as the repository of the secrets of the thirty-three basic pieces of the loom. The frame contains eight principal wooden elements: four vertical pieces associated with the mother elements and the cardinal directions, and four transverse pieces associated with the collateral directions. The weaver occupies the centre, representing primordial humanity at the heart of space.
Before beginning work, the weaver touches each piece of the loom and pronounces the words or litanies corresponding to the forces believed to inhabit them. His movements are therefore more than technical operations. The rhythm of the feet working the pedals recalls the creative Word and expresses the dualism and cyclical alternation present throughout life.
The shuttle is imagined as a boat crossing between the threads of the warp, moving from one bank to the other while unreeling its thread. The woven cloth accumulating around the stick on the weaver's belly represents the past, while the thread not yet woven symbolizes the unknown future. The craft links material production with reflection on time, fate, death, birth, marriage, and renewal.
The extract counts eight movements to and fro in the weaver's activity, corresponding both to the eight pieces of the loom frame and to the eight legs of the mythical spider said to have taught weaving to the ancestor of weavers. The craft thus joins apprenticeship, inherited symbolism, ritual speech, and a cosmological account of perpetual movement.
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