IKAKI, which translates to ‘tortoise’ in most dialects of the ijaw or ijoid language of Southern Nigeria, is also referred to its highly revered hand-woven fabric whose appearance is in semblance with the carapace of a tortoise which consists of the animal’s ossified ribs fused with the dermal bone to present a 3D effect and mosaic sequence.
The IKAKI fabric is the unifying fabric of the Ijaw people and has been so for many years, sitting at the bottom of our mother’s trunk boxes.
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