 Itoku, a place in Nabelkota, the Ogunseh capital, is believed to be where the Adre fabric started from, gradually spreading to what it is today. Happy about it, Jaii, takes us on a historical journey on the production of Adre textile. The Adre textile production is inborn for the Adre people and inherited by birth. The seedy craft as a family business, an heritage which passes on to descendants of families. Jujuala's compound of Kemta was the first to produce it in Nabelkota by Minia Jujuala Shoeiton, the second Yaludi of Igualand, who then passed on the process to her children and onward to the future generations. The first Adre material was made with furu and elu made from the elu leaf, which is planted in the Shakiria over your state. Over the years, creating Adre designs now involves simple techniques, including tie and dye, folding, crumpling and sprinkling, and also a splash of hot wax on fabrics as a resistant agent and place of the indigenous cassava paste. The women remained specialists in the dyeing, tying, hand painting and sewing as men became involved in decorating techniques using a stitching machine and applying starch through zinc stencils. I love Adre to be precise and I love culture. I love our heritage. I've been from the state of Belkota. I love a lot of things that come from Belkota. A lot of experience, like using a play material and turning it into things beautiful. A lot of challenges. If you are not the time, you cannot do this work. I love anything that is associated with tradition and it's part of what we have as a culture in Igualand here. So it's very, very good, particularly if you step outside the country and have these things on, you have been adored. So it's good to equally promote the works of our hands. Some of the traders and residents express their worries as the youths are showing little or no interest in their direct craft. You don't have younger ones because there's nothing propelling them, nothing enticing them into doing it. So if the government wants to come in, they could help incentives and whatever to help the younger ones to take interest and do some of these little things. Government, they are not helping our situation that much. Most of all these fabrics you are looking around here, there's none to do by the material we are using and everything. They are all imported. They bring them from far away and that makes it more challenging. Recently, the Governor of Biodelead Administration is making all efforts to support their direct textile by digitalising it. There are also plans to make the fabric compulsory for secondary school students as soon as it forms at least once a week and this is also applying to its cabinet members. The policy of the government has really helped them in terms of the profits and in terms of their turnover and that as it may has been a plus to this administration and that we can also confirm from all the producers of the Adirai fabric. Adirai textile is the indigo dyed cloth made in southwest Nigeria using a variety of resist dyeing techniques. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.