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Gele - Basic Steps for Wrapping Geles

Gele - Basic Steps for Wrapping Geles

"Gele" is a Yoruba {Nigeria, West Africa} word for a female Headwraps. A "Headwraps" is a long piece of cloth that you tie and tuck on your head to create different looks. Unless you're cheating you never secure the gele with safety pins. If you tied it tight enough, the material wouldn't come off. If it loosened you could always retie it.
I usually use a piece of cloth that is about 2 yards long and 1 ½ yards wide for my Headwraps. I have used shawls as Headwraps and materials for Headwraps as shawls. Material that is that same 2 yards or so length but double the width can be used as a either a Headwraps, or a wraparound skirt. Or you can use that same material to tie a toga-like dress. However, if the material is wider than 1 ½ yards, in order to use it as a gele, I fold it a third or so to lessen its width.
Tying an African Headwraps is similar to tying a towel on your hair after washing it, except that tying Headwraps can result in works of art while tying a towel over your hair mostly serves a utilitarian purpose only. It seems that fewer and fewer African American women are wearing "African Headwraps". However, since at least the year 2000 or so, I've noticed that teenage and young adult African American women are wearing a scarf that is twisted and tucked and tied in a ball at the base of their neck. In my opinion this is a modification of the "front to back" method of tying African Headwraps.
When I first starting wearing geles, I always tied them using the "back to front" method. But now I prefer a "front to back" method. I've never attempted to tell people how to wrap geles, though I have shown a number of people how to do it. This will be a first. So {with a piece of material shawl-like around my neck, and stopping to record what I do at different junctures}, here's my attempt to to give step by step instructions on how I tie a gele.

The "Back to Front" Tying Method: 1. Fold the material depending on its width to make sure if covers the entire hair {how much you fold this material depends on its width} 2. Stand in front of a mirror3. Hold the material with the folded part away from your face.4. Place the material over your hair. 5. Adjust the material so its middle is at the base of your neck. In doing so you will have two ends of material. Holding your head up, and looking straight ahead, grab the right end of the material midway tothe end with your right hand and hold on to while grabbing the left end of the material with your left hand.6. Hold the ends close together with your thumbs, allowing the rest of your fingers to be free.7. Keep holding the material with your thumbs, but use the two fingers next to your thumbs to switch the right end of the material to your left hand and the left end to your right hand. {I always find that I bend my head down when doing this}8. Tighten the gele by pulling the ends. Your right hand holding the formerly left end of the material will be up above your right ear.9. Let go of the left side of the material, but keep a hold of the right.10. This step is for those who wear their Headwraps over their ears. Some women don't] Raise the material or otherwise manipulate the material around your ears so that your ear lobes are showing and are comfortable.11. I usually hold my head titled a bit for this neck step. Take the right end around your head with your right hand until it gets to the left ear.12. With your left hand, move the left end away from piece you are working with
{Now here's where you're creativity comes in. You can twist, tuck, or tie this end. If you want to make a crown gele, you're going to be tucking the ends in so no piece shows. And then you when the right end is tucked in, you will do the same with the left end. But I like to do this: 13. Tie the right end and the left end together at their base. Tie the ends so that they are comfortable on your head-not too loose and not too tight. You should now have a Headwraps that covers your head with two pieces hanging down-one longer than the other. You could just leave it like that, or you could experiment with twisting, tucking one end at a time or tying both pieces together until you end up with a "finished product" that you like.
"Front to Back" method:The same as above only you hold the middle of the material at the middle of your forehead. I often take apart my wrap a couple of times until I'm satisfied with the look. So relax, practice, let the artist in you come out! -Azizi Powell, 1/9/06****And while we're on this subject, check out this site that with drawings {Yeah!} gives instructions about how to wrap one style of African gele and wraparound skirts.

Note The weight, texture, and size of the fabric will affect the end result. For the basic style, use ½ to 1 yard of 100% cotton fabric. "