Mauritania's textile life centres on the melhfa, the dyed cotton veil that has been everyday dress for Hassaniyya-speaking women since the precolonial era. It blends West African cloth-dyeing methods with North African and Arab veiling customs, and women's cooperatives in Nouakchott still dye and decorate veils by hand.
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Mauritania's textile life centres on the melhfa, the dyed cotton veil that has been everyday dress for Hassaniyya-speaking women since the precolonial era. It blends West African cloth-dyeing methods with North African and Arab veiling customs, and women's cooperatives in Nouakchott still dye and decorate veils by hand.
