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Degumming process -cooking the cocoons

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posted on 2024-12-09, 12:49 authored by Laurence DounyLaurence Douny
Cooking cocoons - boiling and stirring cocoons to free the threads from the sericin that binds them together

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Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

B1

Rights owner

Laurence Douny

Title alt

Tuntun tibi/ka niâmi

Cultural group

Marka-Dafing

Participants

Afissata Fofana, Abdoulaye Séré, Salif Sawadogo, Lonsani Dayo

Country

Burkina Faso

Place

Banfora, Banfora

Materials

Animal-silk

Cultural context/event

Resource collection

Location

Cooking area

Date of creation

2020-02-23

Unique ID

2019LG04-B1-0011

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