Adire is a tradition that only few know today. There might be also some disrespect towards the deep blue adire cloths when compared to the colourful modern dyeings. When the textile is sewed to a cloth, it is usually also embroidered, which takes still another person. Also the design is made by both, but again with different methods. Dyers are women, but embroideres men.
Painting is the most precice way.
Kassawa, maize or beewax is used for that. Adire eleko can be made by sablon. This is common in Abeokuta area and the sablon makers are men. There are thousands of different sablons of course, but also some popular themes. Another way of making adire eleko is free hand painting, women's method.