A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...

Classic and timeless, authentic African textiles can add texture and interest to any decorating style. Melvina Mency, owner of Anitavee’s Home Decor, an online store for African-inspired home accents, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. More than 6,000 miles from the African continent, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art boasts a ...

The way one dresses can express their heritage, culture, style and so much more. African-print textiles, which were actually inspired by batik or wax-resist cloth from Indonesia, have been used to ...

Cape Town - Source Africa, now running for its fourth consecutive year, kicked off on Wednesday at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. At the pan-African trade event for the textile and ...

Wacy Zacarias started Karingana Wa Karingana textiles to create authentic African prints, writes Design Indaba's Jamie Matroos. Clothes, patterns and evocative prints had always held meaning for ...

In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...

In this new episode of The Wave, we are happy to have four experts sit down and discuss African textiles and how we can make the textile industry in Africa an engine for job creation and income ...

Sub-Saharan Africa may not have been the most fertile ground for technological innovation in the clothing, textile and fibre sectors, but speakers at the International Textile Manufacturers Federation ...