Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Kente Cloth Sale

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We are having a summer sale of kente cloths from a British private collection assembled in the early 1990s. Click here to see the sale. ...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Sierra Leone Textiles–the Alldridge Collection in Brighton Museum–part two

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery houses more than 100 objects from Sierra Leone purchased in 1899 from Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1947-1916). A...
Thursday, 7 May 2015

New Exhibition: “African Textiles and Adornment: Selections from the Marcel and Zaira Mis Collection” at LACMA

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“ Brilliant color, bold patterns, and intriguing symbols characterize the dress of many societies throughout the African continent. Not ...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Cloth of the Month: An Ewe Chief’s Robe Cloth

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E822 - Very unusual mixed strip Ewe man's cloth with seven different strip designs and exceptionally elaborate borders. The majority o...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Sierra Leone Textiles–the Alldridge Collection in Brighton Museum–part one.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery houses more than 100 objects from Sierra Leone purchased in 1899 from Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1947-1916). A...
Saturday, 18 April 2015

Exhibition and book: “Emblems of Power: Asafo Flags from Ghana” at the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers

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On now and through May at the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers , Tenafly, New Jersey, the exhibition shows the Asafo flag collection ...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

Cloth of the month: A fine natural dyed Hausa blanket.

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AS523 - Fine Hausa blanket collected before World War II. Although cloths such as this were doubtless once widely available in the north o...