I made a brief first visit last week to Freetown, Sierra Leone. I didn't really expect to find any old cloths straight away so was not t...

Now on display at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, is a unique and remarkable Malagasy cloth woven from the silk of the gol...

Bamana puppet of a weaver. The Sogo bo (literally "the animals come out") puppet theatre tradition of the Bamana people of Mali em...

Interesting post at www.yatzer.com "M'Afrique" by Moroso here

The exhibition is displayed over three floors in an annex of the Museum der Kulturen in the medievel old centre of Basel. The main museum bu...

A brief round-up of recent European publications on sub-Saharan African textiles. A later post will cover recent books on African fashion. F...

K201: Rare Asante silk man's kente cloth for ceremonial wear, circa 1920-30s, in the pattern known as "liar's cloth" or in...