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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Beth Wonders..”…One thing I would add based on my own observation is that colors and color combinations used in African fabric seem to lose vibrancy in our North American environment and light. Even in the “tropical” sunny areas of our continent the African colors do not translate. The combination of sunlight (sun’s position in the [...]
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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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A friend writes to refer me to some fabric dyeing videos on YouTube, commenting that this she is arm chair traveling this year. Enjoy–there are lots of fun ones here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3KPpcMHUs&feature=related
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Posted in Hand-Decorated Damask, Indigo on May 12th, 2010
I was so fortunate to find and purchase a stash of Natural Indigo Dyed Damask during my perambulations around West African New York. Six new designs have been added, and unlike the tie & dye patterns that have been the staple of my Indigo Inventory over the years, these are made using the wax block [...]
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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 [...]
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How can it be that our lovely full month in New York City has dwindled to seven days and counting until we return to Maine? We have not spent every day in a dead heat of activity, rather have passed many days in a leisurely manner. As I wrote to my brother from MA recently, [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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