West african textiles

Indigo is a gallery of international Folk Art located in Philadelphia, PA.

Our Fabric is the highest quality 100% Cotton pieces sourced across West Africa. We sell a variety of fabric from intricately patterned Indigo Fabric that has been hand dyed by artisans at the ancient Kofar Mata Dye Pits to beautifully patterned "African Print" or Wax Printed Cotton made and printed in Africa.

This splendid piece of resist-stitched, indigo-dyed cloth is known as ndop, and such cloths tell a remarkable story relating to trade within Africa. Cloths such as this example was produced by the Bamileke people of the Cameroon grasslands. The example here comprises at least 19 narrow panels of strip-woven cotton cloth, most probably woven in … Read more

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Acquired by Joseph Upton in present-day Ghana, ca. 1970; Joseph Upton, Salem, MA, ca. 1870–(d.) 1884; by descent to Annie Larrabee Upton (Mrs. Charles W. Rice), Salem, MA, 1884–1962; by descent to Norman S

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The distinctive, double-sided, wax-print cottons so loved by elite Africans actually is produced in a small, rather nondescript town in southern Holland.

Textile Research — MARY HARK

antique African cloth

Step into the world of artisanal fashion, where we combine history, skill, and elegant African style in our hand-made clothes made from real African fabrics. Each piece is the result of a lot of hard work and captures the spirit of cultural history and artistic expression. Making African clothes out of African fabric is a great way to honour cultural heritage, embrace creativity, and enjoy the beauty of traditional textiles.

An illustrated guide to the African symbols called Adinkra used in Ghana, West Africa, with an adinkra index and high-quality adinkra images.