Thursday, 18 December 2014
“a native Christmas tree”
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Since at least the end of the nineteenth century the Christmas and New Year holidays in Conakry, St Louis and other cities of Francophone ...
Friday, 12 December 2014
African Textiles in Close Up #4: An Asante “asasia” kente cloth at the British Museum.
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“Asasia” is the Asante term for the rarest and most obscure type of silk kente cloth. A small number of examples were collected by Venice La...
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Saturday, 6 December 2014
“Woman Textile Merchant”, Nigeria, early C20th.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014
“A Yoruba bride and bridegroom”- vintage postcard circa 1910.
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Friday, 14 November 2014
Exhibition: “Add to, Take Away: Artistry and Innovation in African Textiles” at Dallas Museum of Art
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November 8, 2014 to December 6, 2015 ““Add to” and “take away” refer to basic techniques African textile artists use to decorate cloth. ...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Cloth of the month–a lower Niger prestige sash.
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Man's prestige sash, worn over the shoulder, with the warp woven from luxury magenta silk imported to Nigeria by the Saharan caravan t...
“At Home in Africa” at Cleveland State University–some images.
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Thanks are due to curator Kathy Curnow for generously sharing these images of the recent exhibition At Home in Africa at Cleveland State Uni...
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