Traditional Nigerian fabrics like Adire and Aso-Oke are making a big comeback in fashion. These fabrics, once worn mainly for ...

By Moruff Adenekan Renowned scholar and anthropologist, Franz Boas, in one of his scholarly works, gave a perspective of culture as a unique thing peculiar or specific to each group of people or ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.Mica L. Anders is the owner of ...

Nathalie Van der Massen and Karen Verlinden like to blur the line between art and design. The Belgium-based textile designer ...

Recently, the output of the Soviet textile designer Anna Andreeva has been the subject of renewed interest among art ...

The artist took her cue from New York Textile Month, every September. October is Portland Textile Month in Oregon. Comeau has seen the medium’s fortunes fall and rise. “There have been times I ...

The grand finale, dazzled with glamorous fashion displays featuring traditional Ofi, Adire, and Afrocentric ... to stimulate the Egba fashion and textile market, currently estimated at $1 billion ...

Can fashion be sustainable, artisanal, and ethical all at once, or does achieving one mean sacrificing the others? As conscious consumers demand transparency and responsibility, brands face the ...

This textile serves as a vital bridge between past and present, connecting wearers to their ancestral legacy. “The collection also features adire and tie-dye lace, created using traditional ...

She incorporated a fresh approach to a historical technique originally facilitated by Alao Omotayo Luqman, a textiles expert who came to Jamaica as a cultural diplomat with the Nigerian Embassy ...