A couple days ago I was in Kano. We went for vacation and also to encourage the Free Methodist church up there. Nobody has visited them in three years. Of course we had to go site seeing. The strangest thing was the dye pits. Imagine a bunch of ¾ meter wide 3-6 meter holes with blue liquid inside. Now think that 75% of them were filled with garbage. You get a strange place. The same holes have been used in the same way for 600 years! Now imagine the sound of ten 30 pound wooden hammers continuously hitting cloth and wood. I bought a piece of cloth called House of Parliament. At the start the cloth looked like George Washington’s wig, (see picture) because if you want to have designs in the cloth they have to tie it up in places. To get the dark color the tied cloth gets dunked in the solution over and over for six hours. A 6 meter deep pit’s solution lasts for a year. I’ll always remember that place because of the pillow that I’m going to make.
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