with traditional African fabrics like Kente, Adire, and Bokolonfini being reimagined for contemporary markets. African designers are also gaining international acclaim for their unique designs and ...

Joburg-based fabric and wallpaper brand, Fabric Bank, has launched its Falissie Collection in collaboration with ...

Wax print fabrics or Ankara fabrics are known for their graphic patterns, bold colours and catchy slogans. The iconic cloth ...

At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ... To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half ...

Photographer: "Nwankpa Design, led by Susan Nwankpa Gillespie, has designed Textile House #1, an ADU in the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A. that blends the rich heritage of West African textiles ...

Not only will such devices be embedded on textile substrates, but an electronics device or system could become the fabric itself (see for instance: Nanotechnology e-textiles for bio-monitoring and ...

But producers face hurdles -- taxes are high, and fabrics and clothes imported from abroad make for fierce competition. Production costs in the west African country are high, while a lack of ...

Wax fabric is widely seen across West Africa today ... it was later reclaimed and popularized by various African nations, becoming a symbol of identity and even protest. However, its history ...