Kente cloth, a brightly colored and intricately patterned traditional African fabric, can serve as a window into another culture.The cloth has been adopted into African American culture and is a ...

Choosing the right materials is essential for crafting authentic African bark cloth jewelry. The inner bark of trees such as ...

Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum ...

The best metaphors come as naturally as sunrise; they aren’t forced or contrived. When you discover that kente cloth — real kente cloth, woven by hand, not the machine-made version — is the same both ...

African winters can be quite chilly, but they are also a great opportunity to showcase the continent's rich textile heritage through patterned ponchos ...

Kampala — THE coastline of East Africa is the cradle of the leso, but right into the hinterland, you will encounter people using a kind of wrapper that shares the pattern and sometimes colour with ...