Akwete cloth is a unique hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete in Abia state, South Eastern Nigeria is famous. The raw materials used in its production are wool, cotton, silk, raffia, cotton and the bark of certain trees (hemp). It was originally referred to as “Akwa Miri” (Cloth of […]
The most popular print fabric is tagged Ankara in Nigeria, Kitenge in Burundi, Atampa in Ghana etc, Even though the the Ankara fabric has come with lots of controversies from many quarters about it being depicted as an identity for Africans, it is widely worn by many Africans and has been used to depict the […]
Lace has become an integral part of African Fashion, a popular fabric that is shipped around the world to make garments. What we now regard as lace became popular in the early sixteenth century even though lace-like textiles had been used for centuries. By the seventeenth century, lace-making had spread throughout Europe due to trade […]