Friday, 28 March 2014

“Costume for a King”–An important Sierra Leone or Liberian robe at the Pitt-Rivers Museum.

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A couple of years back a research project at the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, revealed that a previously undocumented West African robe in ...
Friday, 14 March 2014

A footnote on “Sierra Leone Country Cloths” –the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1924.

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Country cloths were the main feature of the Sierra Leone pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley in 1924, as the above image ...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Sierra Leone Textiles–a selection on Pinterest.

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Over the past week I have been adding photographs to a new section on my Pinterest page featuring a curated selection of cloths and robes...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

“Mbuna”: collecting textiles in Mali– excerpt from a memoir by Rachel Hoffman.

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The chief of Mbuna with an arkilla munnga hanging , 1980s, Mali. Photo ©Rachel Hoffman. Rachel Hoffman, formerly of the Fowler Museum, ...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Cloth of the month: An Ebira men’s cloth–probably…

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As I noted in my description on our gallery site here this cloth is something of a mystery piece. It was bought from an Ebira cloth vendo...
Friday, 28 February 2014

French National Archives–historic images of West African textile production.

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Now online from the French Archives nationale d’outre-mer are over 5000 images taken before the 1960s in France’s former African colonies. ...
Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Exhibition: Born of the Indian Ocean: The Silks of Madagascar at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

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Now Open Exploring the ROM’s unique collection of Textiles from Madagascar Middle East / South Asia Special Exhibit case, 3rd Floor Le...