Wednesday, 23 April 2014

New light on an Ewe chief

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In her pioneering book West African Weaving (Duckworth Press, 1975) Venice Lamb published the photograph above (source: Wilmarth family p...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Cloth of the month: an unusual Ewe chief’s robe

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E787 - Exceptional Ewe chief’s cloth in superb, complete, condition. This unique cloth provides a textbook exemplar of the way in which an...
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014

“African Rulers Here”

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Press photo titled “African Rulers Here” 27.9. 1948 Caption: “A party of African rulers, here for the African Conference opening on Wedn...
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, ...