The weblog of Christine Covert – the African Fabric Lady
Posted in African Batik Fabric, Batik, Bazin, Fashion, Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo, Patterns, People, Traditional Fabrics on Jun 20th, 2013
I now have the new showroom for sales in the works, setting up the categories and products as well as the pesky issues such as shipping & payments. Finally. Also, I am awaiting the [...]
Posted in African Batik Fabric, African Prints, Batik, Bazin, Fashion, Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo, Modern Tribal Cloth, Mudcloth, Traditional Fabrics on Mar 6th, 2013
Thanks to all of your emails indicating interest in sales. Since the African Fabric Sales shop at Yahoo was closed, I’ve been working to get the domain transferred and a shopping cart installed here. Apparently I did things in the wrong order but now it looks like we are on track. Once we are ready, [...]
Posted in African Batik Fabric, African Prints, African Quilts, Batik, Bazin, Fashion, Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo, Industry, Kente Prints, Modern Tribal Cloth, Mudcloth, Traditional Fabrics, WAX on Nov 13th, 2012
Are you starting to wonder why my prices are so low and the inventory is so small? It’s all part of a projected revamping of African Fabric Sales in which we intend to sell out the factory made fabrics–the wax, the prints, the damask–and replace them with hand decorated and tribal fabrics. This was [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Bazin on Sep 25th, 2010
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been sorting through the accumulated boxes of this and that in the Fabric Storeroom, and most recently, have arranged by color the beautiful damask. Particularly the 1-yard cuts remaining from my days selling at quilt shows and conferences. It’s gorgeous fabric, damask and suitable for mixing in with other fabrics [...]
Posted in Bazin, Hand-Decorated Damask on May 8th, 2010
We are in the process of loading new hand decorated cotton damask onto our web store. The fabric comes in strange sizes–a 3 yard length I purchased turns out, for example, to be 2 yards and 24 inches, that is if it’s not 2 yards and 32″ but whatever. I’m selling it by the half [...]
Posted in African Prints, Bazin, Events, Hand-Decorated Damask, People, Uncategorized, WAX on Apr 11th, 2010
If you can’t make it to Africa this year, or even any time soon, New York is a pretty good second choice. We are here for the month of April, having rented an apartment at 119th & Frederick Douglass in Harlem. While our little street is pretty quiet, we’re just a couple of blocks away [...]
Posted in Bazin, Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo on May 18th, 2009
We’ve just posted a collection of 9 different designs dyed with indigo on 100% cotton damask bazin fabric at www.africanfabricsales.com. They come from Guinea Conakry and are aromatic and richly loaded with dye. See the article about caring for Indigo fabric here.
Posted in Bazin, Hand-Decorated Damask on Apr 30th, 2009
This letter just came in, and I thought I’d like to share it with you all as well as my response. Hi, I am working with on developing garments with African refugee woman in New Zealand. I am interested in applying traditional fabric printing methods. Are there any that are reasonably simple and don’t need [...]
Posted in African Prints, Bazin, Modern Tribal Cloth on Oct 28th, 2008
Bazin is the local name for factory woven cotton damask. Most of it is made elsewhere, but BAZIN is considered a Prestige Fabric and thus is incorporated into clothing for daily use as well as dress-up. The finest BAZIN arrives in Africa from Switzerland and Austria, the greatest amount is manufactured in China.
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