Somali paper making

[Cartan Boos]

Somali papermaking

Somalis have used the frankincense trees native to Somalia to produce writing paper. By harvesting the tree’s second layer of bark, they created a material perfectly suited for writing.

"resembling oiled letter-paper, perfectly transparent, and of a beautiful amber colour" A somali Qur'an from the 18th century:

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[Xassan]

Amazing

 

[Cartan Boos]

Amazing

Somali fabric making also challenged india, Our people were never lazy even with the harsh climate and small population

 

[Midas]

Somali papermaking

Somalis have used the frankincense trees native to Somalia to produce writing paper. By harvesting the tree’s second layer of bark, they created a material perfectly suited for writing.
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"resembling oiled letter-paper, perfectly transparent, and of a beautiful amber colour" A somali Qur'an from the 18th century:
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Wow I've been wondering about this since I watched that YouTube video on ethiopian book makers

 

[Laser]

Somali papermaking

Somalis have used the frankincense trees native to Somalia to produce writing paper. By harvesting the tree’s second layer of bark, they created a material perfectly suited for writing.
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"resembling oiled letter-paper, perfectly transparent, and of a beautiful amber colour" A somali Qur'an from the 18th century:
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Great account, why doesn't he post more often

 

[Midas]

@Idilinaa it's kind of crazy to think this never even occurred to me even though logically if Ethiopians had methods to produce paper then why wouldn't somalis? It shows us how there are probably entire aspect of somali culture/history/technology that could have been extermely common but that were just not aware of. For example before people on here mentioned that they were aware of some of their family having manuscripts that dealt in mathematics/astronomy i was totally ignorant of it to the point it would have never occurred to me that somalis had acess to this knowledge. Or that we were writing commentaries on philosophy and geometry

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1830s Somali books on Geometry<br><br>&quot;Sheekh Cali Majerteen also known as Xaaji Cali Duulaa a religious man active in Merca who is also credited with his commentary in Arabic on philosophy and ilmu al- masāhãt geometry&quot;<br><br>-Tradizione E Innovazione Nella Letteratura Orale Dei Somali <a href="https://t.co/e0Kpas0Tzd">https://t.co/e0Kpas0Tzd</a> <a href="https://t.co/W4f9IyNaot">pic.twitter.com/W4f9IyNaot</a></p>&mdash; The Puntland Vault 🗄 (@PuntlandVault) <a href="">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Shimbiris]

@Idilinaa it's kind of crazy to think this never even occurred to me even though logically if Ethiopians had methods to produce paper then why wouldn't somalis? It shows us how there are probably entire aspect of somali culture/history/technology that could have been extermely common but that were just not aware of. For example before people on here mentioned that they were aware of some of their family having manuscripts that dealt in mathematics/astronomy i was totally ignorant of it to the point it would have never occurred to me that somalis had acess to this knowledge. Or that we were writing commentaries on philosophy and geometry

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1830s Somali books on Geometry<br><br>&quot;Sheekh Cali Majerteen also known as Xaaji Cali Duulaa a religious man active in Merca who is also credited with his commentary in Arabic on philosophy and ilmu al- masāhãt geometry&quot;<br><br>-Tradizione E Innovazione Nella Letteratura Orale Dei Somali <a href="https://t.co/e0Kpas0Tzd">https://t.co/e0Kpas0Tzd</a> <a href="https://t.co/W4f9IyNaot">pic.twitter.com/W4f9IyNaot</a></p>&mdash; The Puntland Vault 🗄 (@PuntlandVault) <a href="">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Reminds me of my Dhow thread which I have 1-2 more posts for or even the stuff I discovered about Somali nomads using dogs en masse during the 1800s. There's a lot of our culture we're not aware of or haven't been aware of until recently and thank the heavens for the internet for bringing all these documents, historical accounts and people to the fore.

 

[Midas]

Reminds me of my Dhow thread which I have 1-2 more posts for or even the stuff I discovered about Somali nomads using dogs en masse during the 1800s. There's a lot of our culture we're not aware of or haven't been aware of until recently and thank the heavens for the internet for bringing all these documents, historical accounts and people to the fore.

It's been fascinating to watch through the internet this info be reintroduced and recontexualized into our understanding of the past. It makes me realize how true the idea that history is a narrative that we construct we are literally constructing our understanding of the past . Even the arguments and info on the somali side of the internet is downstream of what people found online or in books