Kente cloth, a brightly colored and intricately patterned traditional African fabric, can serve as a window into another culture.The cloth has been adopted into African American culture and is a ...
Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum ...
The recent inscription of Kente fabric, among other African items and practices into Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity is a milestone in the global ...
African-inspired fabric wall hangings are a beautiful way to bring the continent's rich culture and vibrant colors into your home ...
Reviewed by Victoria L. Rovine in Art bulletin (New York) 101 (2) June 2019, pages 144-146. AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian ...
Kampala — THE coastline of East Africa is the cradle of the leso, but right into the hinterland, you will encounter people using a kind of wrapper that shares the pattern and sometimes colour with ...
A USA Today fact check ruled that the kente cloth sashes Democratic lawmakers wore to honor George Floyd “were historically worn by [the] empire involved in West African slave trade.” A group of ...