When visiting vacationer websites throughout the framework of the cultural heritage month within the Cacades, if there’s a web site that draws extra consideration from guests, it’s the van weavers’ holes within the small city of Tiekouna. Let’s uncover this cultural heritage collectively!
A real curiosity, these holes in-built Tiékouna by no means stop to amaze some, or frighten others. Certainly, the sight of those cultural buildings sends chills down your backbone. Hundreds of questions cross your thoughts however two stay probably the most persistent, specifically: How is that this doable? How can girls determine to work in holes? Guests to this web site have requested every kind of questions to find the thriller surrounding these holes, which may be as much as ten meters deep. In response to Lucilaya Tou, a spokesperson for basket weavers, every gap has a slim entrance to permit basket weavers, weavers and guests to entry the inside by way of a ladder. There may be at the very least ten basket makers. Nonetheless in line with Lucilaya Tou, when it rains even when the water is available in we empty it however it’s troublesome for the water to enter these holes outdoors on flat floor . The holes enable the basket makers to protect the palm leaves used to make the hampers so they do not dry out. Inside the opening, it’s a little cool and every gap retains the moisture that preserves the pliability of the palm leaf when the hampers are woven. The opposite facet of those holes is the tranquility, even when somebody is speaking outdoors you’ll be able to’t hear them from inside. The basket weavers will likely be amongst themselves and sing conventional native sounds to encourage one another. In response to these artists, those that dug these holes are now not on this world; which means that these holes have been there a few years in the past. On daily basis, every basket weaver can weave 4 to 5 banns, if it’s the mats, it’s one mat for 2 days as a result of the weaving of the mats is extra difficult than the weaving of the banns. Which means these artisanal merchandise which can be put available on the market are costly. Guests who had the braveness to enter these holes instantly got here out saying that it is rather scorching inside whereas the courageous weavers take shelter inside from morning to night .
Besseri Frédéric OUATTARA/ Banfora
