Women, many of them single mothers, make up the majority of the secondhand clothing market's retailers, yet no one can speak ...

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

Adire is a traditional Nigerian textile that is famous for its indigo-dyed patterns produced by resist-dye techniques. Artisans use techniques such as tying, stitching, or applying wax to the fabric ...

Mazloomi’s creative practice has come a long way since that first quilt, which she still has (and asks her children not to ...

Kenyans praised wellwishers who came together to build a granny who lived in a dilapidated house. They built her a lovely house as they restored her dignity.

This technique emphasizes the resourcefulness and creativity that is inherent in African textile traditions. Coming from Nigeria, adire textiles are famous for their indigo-dyed patterns. Using ...

Various types of cloth masks (made of cotton, gauze and other fibres) have been tested in vitro in the past and show lower filtration capacity compared with disposable masks. 7 The protection afforded ...

Outsole: The part below the midsole that actually makes contact with the ground. Typically made from rubber or a ...

Cutting new cloth: African designers stitch fresh stories into Paris fashion When Valérie Ka started modelling at 14 in Côte d’Ivoire, she thought she was on top of the world. But she wanted ...