Tools and materials can be purchased in bulk quantities at discounted rates from suppliers specializing in ethnic fabrics ...

Crafting rugs using African fabric scraps is an innovative way to repurpose while celebrating cultural heritage ...

Historically, African consumers don’t care about flawless precision, but tend to see other values in textiles like the fabric’s origins, colors, patterns and signs, Sarlay thinks.

The manufacturing of African print textiles has shifted to China in the 21st century. While they are widely consumed in ...

Printed Textile, 2005. Made by Vlisco, Helmond, Netherlands, founded 1846. Cotton plain weave, wax resist print, 12 feet × 47 1/2 inches (365.8 × 120.7 cm). Private Collection, ©Vlisco.

The beauty of African fabrics is catching the eye more and more of seamstresses both for attire and home decorating. A new book called ''African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashions with Ethnic ...

Most of us who enjoy good design are able to identify kente cloth at 50 paces.But the cognoscenti of African design will tell you this colorful cloth is only one of many exotic fabrics.Ernestine ...

She’s the sister of Nigerian soccer legend Sunday Oliseh, but with her fashion label Tesslo, Tessy Oliseh-Amaize is making a ...

Chinese manufactured cloth has undermined the monopoly on the trade of Dutch African print textiles that Togolese traders once enjoyed.