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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This book, originally published by Harper and Row in 1989, has lost none of the punch it delivered when it first hit the bookstores. It is available today through major booksellers both as a new or used book. This book surveys the raw materials used, and describes the various types of looms used by people [...]
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If you are fascinated by the beauty and vigor of mudcloth, this book will inform you about traditional and contemporary examples of this fabric, known as Bogolon in the local language. Victoria Rovine did her PhD work in this field and and written a lively account of her experiences in Mali during the 16 [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Fashion, Industry, People on Feb 23rd, 2011
Subtitled “Power and the Politics of Dress” this collection of 11 articles by eminent Afro-centered anthropologists, was published by Indiana University Press in 4004. Editor Jean Allman, who contributed the forward and an essay, has brought together keenly considered information regarding topics as diverse as “Nationalism Without a Nation: Understanding the Dress of Somali Women [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Fashion, Industry, People on Nov 22nd, 2010
The previous post about African Fashion was prompted by 2 related occurrences: the frequency with which I hear from readers deploring the paucity of use of African Fabrics in the Fashion World as seen here in the US and the re-reading of a book called SALAULA by Karen Tranberg Hansen, published by the Anthropology/African Studies [...]
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