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Post Reply02/29/2016, 14:27:25
Hello to all,
I was for the first time in Africa, exactly in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in 1972. I loved the market down town and went there every day, to look at loincloths height of color! I liked to speak with the women who sold vegetables and fruits. There was only a butcher down-town and he was not cleaner than the market. Then in the morning, I got up early, very early, before the flies, to the market to choose and buy my meat! and I looked for the grigris: skulls of animals, skins, horns...spades of porcupines...and near of there, they were the beads: glass, wood, terra-cotta, and I began my collection and my love for the beads. We traveled often to Mali, in Bamako where I found also beads, in Mopti and Djenne...
I lived In Bouake, Ivory Coast, during 7 years: there was, in the market, a nice dealer of beads in front of the grigris dealer, I went there 5 times in week. But in the same time, we continued to travel to Burkina Faso and Mali. Then I went to Cameroon one year, and Malagasy during 4 years: Soon I will tell you what I learnt on the role of beads in Malagasy. Finally again in Cameroon during 6 years. We traveled to the North, in Maroua where I found beads too.
In Yaoundé, I met a fantastic dealer from Mali. He supplied the markets from West Africa with modern beads from India, China, Indonesia....The world was his garden and he phoned me from Singapour, Bagdad, Hong Kong, Alep or Istanbul ....and sold me some beautiful islamic beads from Middle West and Morfia, and beads from Djenne. But, he was very expensive!!! I could not buy all that he offered to me!!! it was so hard to say "no"!!!.
I am also interested me in the beads from China, jade and glass, especially the ancient beads from Longshan Culture, Warring states, Han....and I go often in China.
I like beads because they accompanied the evolution of the humanity from time immemorial, I like the history of beads: their roles in every country, culture and civilization. I also like noticing the technical progress during the history, and I love above all, imagine their route since their manufacturing: by which miracle these so fragile objects arrive until to me!
I don't sell beads, I collect them, but now I would want to sell some of them to buy another beads for complete my collection with some purchases!
I made some necklaces for me and friends.
I was for the first time in Africa, exactly in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in 1972. I loved the market down town and went there every day, to look at loincloths height of color! I liked to speak with the women who sold vegetables and fruits. There was only a butcher down-town and he was not cleaner than the market. Then in the morning, I got up early, very early, before the flies, to the market to choose and buy my meat! and I looked for the grigris: skulls of animals, skins, horns...spades of porcupines...and near of there, they were the beads: glass, wood, terra-cotta, and I began my collection and my love for the beads. We traveled often to Mali, in Bamako where I found also beads, in Mopti and Djenne...
I lived In Bouake, Ivory Coast, during 7 years: there was, in the market, a nice dealer of beads in front of the grigris dealer, I went there 5 times in week. But in the same time, we continued to travel to Burkina Faso and Mali. Then I went to Cameroon one year, and Malagasy during 4 years: Soon I will tell you what I learnt on the role of beads in Malagasy. Finally again in Cameroon during 6 years. We traveled to the North, in Maroua where I found beads too.
In Yaoundé, I met a fantastic dealer from Mali. He supplied the markets from West Africa with modern beads from India, China, Indonesia....The world was his garden and he phoned me from Singapour, Bagdad, Hong Kong, Alep or Istanbul ....and sold me some beautiful islamic beads from Middle West and Morfia, and beads from Djenne. But, he was very expensive!!! I could not buy all that he offered to me!!! it was so hard to say "no"!!!.
I am also interested me in the beads from China, jade and glass, especially the ancient beads from Longshan Culture, Warring states, Han....and I go often in China.
I like beads because they accompanied the evolution of the humanity from time immemorial, I like the history of beads: their roles in every country, culture and civilization. I also like noticing the technical progress during the history, and I love above all, imagine their route since their manufacturing: by which miracle these so fragile objects arrive until to me!
I don't sell beads, I collect them, but now I would want to sell some of them to buy another beads for complete my collection with some purchases!
I made some necklaces for me and friends.