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Create beautful kente patterns, we tell you how

Weaving African kente patterns is an art passed down through generations. The vibrant, intricate designs are a hallmark of ...
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African textile patterns / Catherine Carpenter

This beautiful collection of vibrant and colourful African textiles, carefully selected from North, West, East, Central and Southern Africa, will thrill and inspire artists and designers, particularly ...
Hyperallergic

How Dutch Wax Fabrics Became a Mainstay of African Fashion

Textile pattern by Constance Girard for Vlisco on view in Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) The story of Vlisco begins not in Dakar, Lagos, or Accra, ...
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Patterns in circulation : cloth, gender, and materiality in West Africa / Nina Sylvanus, the University of Chicago Press

Reviewed by Victoria L. Rovine in Art bulletin (New York) 101 (2) June 2019, pages 144-146. AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian ...
The New York Times

How West African Textiles Shaped a Southern California Bungalow

Susan Nwankpa Gillespie, an architect in Southern California, wanted to create a larger home for her family. Bruce Damonte Nwankpa Gillespie designed brick patterns inspired by a West African dress ...
Charlotte Observer

New Charlotte museum exhibit offers a look at mesmerizing African textiles

Step inside the second-floor galleries of the Mint Museum Randolph and immerse yourself in the rhythmic patterns and velvety textures of some of the world’s most masterfully woven works of art: Kuba ...
The St. Augustine Record

FORT MOSE 1738, a designer fashion collection, is on display in St. Augustine

FORT MOSE 1738, a fashion line designed by sociology professor Maurice N. Gattis, is on display at the St. Augustine Art Association. The collection features bold colors and patterns inspired by West ...