Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Indigo “snake” cloths of the Igbomina Yoruba

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Today I am showing a group of three rare women’s wrapper cloths from a sub-group of the Yoruba people of south western Nigeria.  The Igbom...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Style Africa–new exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

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“Style Africa presents visitors with the changing traditions of woven, embroidered, printed and dyed clothing and textiles from West Afric...
Friday, 9 March 2012

More on “The Fashionable Hair”–style on Africa’s west coast in the 1900s

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In a post last month I looked at a series of early postcards by the African photographer Arkhurst showing images of women’s dress and hair s...
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Thursday, 23 February 2012

Sierra Leone Heritage resources site online

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“The SierraLeoneHeritage.org digital resource is the main output of a research project entitled ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital ...
Monday, 20 February 2012

Exploring form and colour – An Ewe textile masterpiece

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The large elaborately patterned cloths commissioned from master weavers by chiefs and wealthy “big men” of the Ewe in the Volta region of ...
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

COTTON: Global Threads arrive at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester

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“Exhibition: COTTON: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until May 13 2012 Four years ago, curator Jennifer Harris and ...
Monday, 6 February 2012

“The Fashionable Hair”– Africa’s coastal style in the 1900s

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These images are from two series of postcards produced between 1900 and 1910 by the photographer F.W.H Arkhurst in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coa...
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