African Textiles Today by Chris Spring (British Museum Press), shifts the focus away from the woven textile traditions of West And Central ...

Superb early example of a style of nine strip blanket with nine rows of pattern that is called Uldebe among the Dogon, where it has an imp...

Some more photos taken earlier this year in Dogon country, Mali, this time by Ilsemargret Luttmann. As we can see design innovation in ind...

“Sanata and Dicko are dyers  in Mali. Sanata produces coloured bazin fabrics with her co-wives in Bamako. Dicko lives in the bush in Dog...

Gilbert “Bobbo” Ahiagble, Ewe Master Weaver. Photo by Lisa Aronson To mark the recent passing of Bobbo Ahiagble, who was undoubtedly the...

In the 1960s and 70s many young Dogon and Bamana  men from Mali migrated to the relatively cosmopolitan cities of Accra and Kumase in ...

Continuing our exploration of some recent additions to our Ewe Kente gallery today’s post looks at a dramatic style of weft faced Ewe clo...