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PANO DE TERRA<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Pano textiles made in Cape Verde from locally grown cotton u<\/span>sed to be hugely popular throughout Upper Guinea<\/span><\/strong>. They were even exported at times to Brazil and other parts of Africa. Panos were also worn by most Cape Verdean women well into the late 1800\u2019s. Not only in Santiago but all the other islands as well.<\/p>\n

The Pano industry of Cape Verde became dominant after Cape Verde stopped being a regional trading center and transit station for reexporting slaves in the 1600\u2019s. It already started in the 1500\u2019s<\/span><\/strong> though. There are many fascinating aspects. The Panos are assumed to have patterns of originally Moorish or Hispano\/Morisco design. But this industry was based on Upper Guinean production methods (the loom and the way of combining several strips to make 1 piece of textile).<\/p>\n

These production methods are assumed to have been spread by the Mandinga and Wolof<\/span><\/strong> specifically. At the time of Portuguese arrival in the 1400\u2019s they were also the only peoples together with the Sereer and Fula being described as wearing cotton clothing. Later on this habit spread gradually, mainly among the elites of southern areas within Upper Guinea.<\/p>\n

However the cultivation of cotton and also the actual weaving of the Pano textiles was apparently done exclusively in Senegambia and Mali. Only exception being the Casamance and S\u00e3o Domingos river in Guin\u00e9 Bissau. Where the Cassanga and Banhun are said to have been early adapters.<\/span><\/strong> Followed some time later by the Papel who also got influenced by Cape Verdean settlers in Cacheu. This area would also be the chief buyer of Cape Verdean cotton which they used for making Pano textiles themselves. Aside from also importing lots of Cape Verdean Panos. Cape Verdean Panos were also especially popular in Sierra Leone and Guin\u00e9 Conakry where the English found them to be indispensable for slave trading.<\/p>\n

There were several types of Cape Verdean Pano\u2019s, each carrying its own name. Two Pano types from the 1700\u2019s can be related to Senegal<\/span> <\/strong>according to Cape Verdean historian Antonio Carreira who devoted an entire study to Panos (Panaria Caboverdeana-Guineense: aspectos hist\u00f3ricos e s\u00f3cio-econ\u00f3micos<\/em>, 1983).<\/p>\n