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Recommended Sites:
African
Waistcoat Company - "Africa meets Savile Row" - fine
waistcoats tailored from Yoruba aso oke.
If
you are looking for African cloths for use in quilting a good
range of wax prints and batiks are available from Magie Relph at
the African Fabric
Shop.
THE
FANTI, THE COMPANIES AND THE FLAGS OF THE ASAFO by
Federico Carmignani
African
Trade Beads: a small English company specialising in the collection and supply of
African trade beads, jewellery, artefacts and curios, ancient
and modern.
Cross Cultural
Collaborative: An educational non-profit that invites people to Ghana to promote cultural exchange and understanding through the arts.
African Textile Links:
African
Craft - excellent site with information on Ewe, Malinke and
East African weaving, amongst other highlights. Two textile
exhibits start here.
Afevo
- interesting modern Ewe weaving site. Also an interesting text on
learning to weave on an Ewe loom here.
African
Textiles - some interesting photos
African
American Quilting Tradition - nice pictures
Afrique
Bleue -les routes de l'indigo
Akan
Cultural Symbols Project Adinkra
Page and Kente page - excellent site
American
Museum of Natural History ethnographic collection on-line here.
Search for textiles.
Bogolan
- good site, in French
Burkina
Faso weaving
by Dr. Christopher Roy. Also see his superb photographs here
Baule
Weaving - a brief article
Cape
Verde weaving
Daily
Life in Sierra Leone 1936-7 - includes a couple of pictures of
weaving
an
eternity of the forest - Mbuti women's bark cloth paintings.
Ethiopia
Traditions of Creativity - excellent online exhibition with
several pages on weaving
The
Fabric of Moroccan Life
Gifts
and Blessings: the textile arts of Madagascar
Pioneer
mud cloth artists Groupe
Bogolan Kasobané - part of the Art & Life in Africa site
Indigo
Dyeing in
Labe, Guinea
Kente
bibliography from Howard University
Kuba
Textiles: an introduction
Manjak
weaving in Guinea Bissau
Nike
- a fine exhibit on the adire and batik art of Nike (Davies)
Okundaye
Vlisco
- home of "Dutch Wax" prints
Woodin
- Stylish African prints and fashions
Wrapped
in Pride - kente exhibition
"Learning
from craft taxonomies: development and a Yoruba textile
tradition." an article by Dr. Norma Wolff and Dr Bolanle
Wahab here.
Textile
links
African
Dress and Fashion:
African
Influences on Western Apparel
African
Loxo -
wonderful pictures of Senegalese hairstyles and outfits from the
1950s
Alphadi
- homepage of the celebrated stylist
Axis
Gallery - has several online exhibits of South African beaded
dress
I.B.Bayo
- a designer of Nigerian descent
Basel
Mission Archive:
thousands of early photographs from Ghana and Cameroon
Cabinda
(Angola)
dress, hairdressing etc. Is in Portuguese but you can get it
translated (sort of) using Google.
The
Cultured Body: African Fashion and Body Arts - seminar held in
2002 - site has useful abstracts on current research topics here.
FIMA
2005 - site of the Festival International De La Mode Africain
Hats
Off - African Headwear exhibit
Kofi
Ansah - an interview with the veteran Ghanaian designer.
See his homepage here.
Kikoromeo
- "Radical Nairobi Chic !"
Interview
with Senegalese designer Oumou
Sy
Motherland
Nigeria -dress section of this huge site
Nigerian
Fabrics and Fashions - Yoruba
ceremonial attire from Brooklyn
Search
for a national dress - interesting article from Kenya
Dress
Code - Senegal
Kings
of Africa
Mode
in Afrika - 2005 exhibition in Hamburg. Catalogue is useful.
Mawuli
Kofi Okudzeto - a Ghanaian designer
Sand
and Silk - 2001 German exhibit on 3 leading designers
Stylists
- links to portfolios of 5 designers
More
links on next page here
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