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 Ray ...

In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...

QUILTING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE BEGAN AS EARLY AS THE 17TH CENTURY. WOMEN STITCHING TOGETHER SCRAPS OF COTTON CLOTH USED TO KEEP WARM AND ARE NOW PART OF THE FABRIC OF BLACK HISTORY.

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 ...

Inside your spaces. You can choose an African theme for your home décor to bring out uniqueness. But make them as colourful and possible. Prized book shelf Nambozo’s bookshelf has books and a ...

Fashion industry in the country is taking a positive dimension. This is not to say that it has not been doing well before, but with series of exhibitions and fashion fairs, especially with the just ...

A new trade war is unrolling across Africa: a battle between Chinese textile-makers and a colonial-era company from the Netherlands, original maker of the eye-catching “Dutch Wax” fabrics often known ...