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Manufacturing process of a beer filter or huqu-timis

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Once Jook has finished tightly weaving the handle-shaped base, a friend helps him to place the open dry fibres on the base of a plastic bottle, which will serve as a guide. In this way, he begins to shape the warp of the open basket on which he will weave an Opo beer filter. Traditionally, a gourd was used instead of the plastic bottle.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

D07

Rights owner

Incipit-CSIC

Title alt

Weaving a beer filter (timis)

Cultural group

Opo

Participants

Jook Tut

Country

Ethiopia

Place

Akula, Gambela

Item/object

Timis

Materials

Fibre-reed fibre

Cultural context/event

Social gathering

Social group setting

Community

Location

Compound

Date of creation

2021-08-06

Unique ID

2019LG07-D07-1000