Kente cloth, a brightly colored and intricately patterned traditional African fabric, can serve as a window into another culture.The cloth has been adopted into African American culture and is a ...

Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum ...

African bark cloth bookmarks are a unique blend of tradition and creativity. These bookmarks, made from the inner bark of ...

The best metaphors come as naturally as sunrise; they aren’t forced or contrived. When you discover that kente cloth — real kente cloth, woven by hand, not the machine-made version — is the same both ...

The recent inscription of Kente fabric, among other African items and practices into Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity is a milestone in the global ...

Photographs taken by Gavin Ashworth during the summer of 1987 in several villages in Mali and Cote d'Ivoire. The images detail all phases of strip weaving, from the spinning of yarn to the assemblage ...

Colleen Kriger's book "Cloth in West African History" provides us with a comprehensive history of pre-colonial and colonial cotton textile production. Sources on this history tend to be spotty, with ...