This morning I will be sharing with you how I made a lovely native dress using fabrics and ASO OKE mostly worn in western Nigeria.
Aso oke fabric, (Yoruba: așǫ oke, pronounced ah-SHAW-okay) is a hand-woven cloth created by the Yoruba people of west Africa. Aso oke means "top cloth".
The aso Oke was used as the side patch pocket and chest pocket.
It's very simple, you can also try it, following the process.
MATERIALS USED
- fabric (gold)
- aso oke
- paper stay
- hair stay
- thread
CUTTING PROCESS
Like I always said, before proceeding to cutting of clothes you must have taken the measurements of the person you are sewing for. After this has been ascertain then you can start cutting.
- chest 40
- length 36
- shoulder 18
- sleeve 10
- neck 16
Will be cutting the fabrics using the measurements above.
- Firstly you fold your materials together into 2, measure the neck 2.5 by 3 inches, measure the shoulder 9.5 inches i.e 18 divided by 2 plus 0.5 as allowance, shoulder rest 2 inches, arm hole 8 inches, chest 10.5 inches i.e 40 divided by 4 plus 0.5 as allowance, then length 38 adding 2 inches to the measurements as sewing allowance.
- Then proceed to cutting of the back.
Fold your fabrics together again, place the front you cut out on it, measure 3 inches from the upper part of the shoulder and 2.5 inches from the lower part, join the dotted line and rule then cut.
- Proceed to cutting of back landing, this is the upper part of the back
- Thereafter you cut the sleeve
Measure 13 so as to used the 3 inches as the sewing allowance.
- Now You can proceed to sewing process.
SEWING PROCESS
after you are done with the cutting process, you start your sewing.
- Firstly you sew the allowance, the one you added to the length and join the shoulders together, the front,
back including the back landing.
- Thereafter you tape the neck
- Fix the chest collar.
- After the chest collar has been fixed, I added a sauce to it by using aso Oke as the chest pocket.
- Then fix the sleeve and close the body, after then you fix the patch pockets to the sides.
And that's how I made that lovely native top.