Textiles originating in and around continental Africa or through the African Diaspora
African textiles are textiles from various locations across the African continent. Across Africa, there are many distinctive styles, techniques, dyeing methods, and decorative and functional purposes. These textiles hold cultural significance and also have significance as historical documents of African design.
Africantextiles are textiles from various locations across the African continent. Across Africa, there are many distinctive styles, techniques, dyeing...
Art of AfricanTextiles: Design Without End. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gillow, John (2009). Printed and Dyed textiles from Africa. London:...
acquired the oldest group of extant textiles from the Kuba tradition from the reigning king, Kot aPe. He called these textiles "Bambala" after the ruling clan...
examples of technical textiles, whereas clothing and furnishings are examples of consumer textiles. Each component of a textile product, including fiber...
topic that provides a look into different African cultures. Clothing varies from brightly colored textiles, to abstractly embroidered robes, to colorful...
widely within the continent by African merchants, as European merchants along the West African coast, Africantextiles were exported to the Caribbean...
Drake (2011). Weaving abstraction : Kuba textiles and the woven art of Central Africa. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum. ISBN 9780874050363. Volavka, Zdenka...
industries to turn cotton into textiles. Historically, textiles were used as a form of money in West Africa and Central Africa. There are records of cloth...
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing. The raw material may be...
changes Africa faced under colonialism and since independence; traditional themes and motifs of West African strip woven cloth and other Africantextiles; and...
clothing and textiles traces the development, use, and availability of clothing and textiles over human history. Clothing and textiles reflect the materials...
indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, such as: African-American, Caribbean or art...
encounter with the 1972 exhibition “AfricanTextiles and Decorative Arts” at the Museum of Modern Art, his friendship with textile curator and shopkeeper Sara...
entered into the Africantextiles market producing woven or printed cotton or polyester viscose blends. Printex ventured into the African print market with...
geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate...
an English writer and social campaigner. She wrote on African art, particularly Africantextiles, and on the Arts and Crafts movement. Jane Galbraith was...
expanded enormously, while the functions of textiles have remained the same, there are many functions for textiles. Whether it be clothing or something decorative...
to South Africa. Da Gama Textiles has made shweshwe from cotton imported from Zimbabwe and grown locally in the Eastern Cape. The local textile industry...
Akosombo Textile Limited (ATL) is a textile company in Ghana that produces real wax and African Fancy prints with 100% cotton. It is located on the grounds...
communities in Africa and the African diaspora) and pants. It has been popularized and claimed by communities in the African diaspora, especially African Americans...
April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2010. Claire Polakoff. Into Indigo: AfricanTextiles and Dyeing Techniques. 1980 Brown, James A.; Rogers, J. Daniel. "Linking...
making a pattern by so doing on the fabric. Adire: Yoruba tie-dye Africantextiles Fila (hat) Women's wrapper Agbada Yoruba women’s clothing Kente cloth—Woven...
rectangles, and so on. Such scaling patterns can also be found in Africantextiles, sculpture, and even cornrow hairstyles. Hokky Situngkir also suggested...
fabric, textiles, feather, and hand quilting. The pattern of the fabric and textile contained within the piece allude to traditional Africantextiles, and...
the Islamic Art Museum of Marrakech, featuring a collection of North Africantextiles from Saint-Laurent's personal collection as well as ceramics and jewelry...