Friday, 26 August 2011

Some more Ewe cloths on our gallery today

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This Ewe woman's cloth from the Volta region of Ghana is an example of the influence of Asante kente cloths on Ewe textile design. An ...
Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Central African Textiles: Art and Cultural Narrative–fall symposium at the Textile Museum, Washington

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“This weekend-long symposium brings The Textile Museum’s fall exhibition, Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central ...
Sunday, 7 August 2011

Fante Asafo Flag–new update

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Charming old flag with a car and two men in front of a road block / barrier with a sign reading "Road Close."  Background is fel...
Saturday, 6 August 2011

African Headwear: Beyond Fashion–new exhibition at Dallas Museum of Art

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“ August 14, 2011–January 1, 2012 Focus Gallery I African Headwear: Beyond Fashion , an exhibition of approximately fifty objects f...
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Friday, 29 July 2011

Mangbetu hairstyle, Congo, 1958

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Vintage postcard. Just a beautiful photo, posted for no particular reason…..
Friday, 22 July 2011

An exceptional silk Asante kente cloth

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  Superb and very rare museum quality Asante silk kente, early C20th, in the "mmeeda" pattern. Very finely woven supplementary...
Saturday, 16 July 2011

West African Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection now online…

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Men’s wrapper cloth, Abron or Koulango peoples, Bondoukou region, Ivory Coast, circa 1900 (Photo from www.karuncollection.com ) The Summ...