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 ...

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LAGOS, March 19 (Reuters) - Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the ...

Woven Africa is Ghanaian start-up on a mission to take Kente, a traditionally woven colourful cloth that is usually worn on special occasions in Ghana and most countries in West Africa, to the rest of ...

This shift from analogue to digital enables designers to print shorter runs while customising designs and producing only what ...

The contemporary art world has seen an uptick in artists working with both textiles and with Indigenous craft traditions, but the two strands weave together in the work of Nengi Omuku, whose paintings ...

Her series “Interwoven Realities” is on show at the LouiSimone Guirandou gallery in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The exhibition is part of the collective exhibition “Regards Contemporains” in which three ...

By Makeba Boateng, Lead Curator – Alternative Fashion Fabric Fair | Founder, Fashion Forum Africa\xa0Africa’s fashion story ...

"We feed our family and also pay children's school fees with proceeds from this business," one of the women said. His striking, vulnerable eyes pounced on every object in the large earthen compound ...