Posted in African Batik Fabric, African Prints, African Quilts, Batik, Bazin, Book Reviews, Events, Fashion, Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo, Industry, Kente Prints, Modern Tribal Cloth, Mudcloth, Other Links, Traditional Fabrics, WAX on Jan 9th, 2012
As we consider the wisdom of continuing with our store found at www.africanfabricsales.com we none the less start the new year with our store wide 20% discount sale. The web store was created to continue a business under THIS name that I was no longer pursuing in person at fairs, festivals, and quilting & sewing [...]
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Greetings, Winter holds on too long here in Maine. Cabin fever causes one to do things one otherwise might not do. Such as looking at page stats. I was amazed to see that the number one go to place at www.africanfabricsales.com is for African Batik Fabric. Month after Month after Month, about the same number [...]
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A reader recently sent me the following letter: ….”I am just curious about this whole issue of colours running when we wash most African fabric. Is there anything in their manufacturing/dyeing process that they can change so that the colour does not run? Or is there some treatment that could be given to this cloth [...]
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Posted in Batik on Oct 30th, 2008
Our current inventory of Pictorial Batiks from West Africa includes some beautiful and evocative designs that tell a story and are produced by hand on cotton cloth. They are created as one of-a-kind artworks or made in multiples using an original image to copy or cartoons that can be traced. Whether an original or one [...]
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