Kente Cloth is probably the most universally recognised of all African Fabrics.Kente Cloth first gained exposure on the international scene with the rise of Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana in 1957. The fact that the handwoven Kente was expensive, difficult to obtain, often uncomfortably warm & heavy, and hard to tailor led to […]
Atiku is a cotton fabric for men manufactured in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Korea, Turkey, China that has become culturally accepted in Nigeria and used to depict the clothing tradition of Nigerians and Africans. The Atiku fabric comes with structured weaving and fine stripes. It is named after Vice-President of Nigeria, Abubakar Atiku (1999 – 2007) […]
I have been a fabric collector since I have known and when I decide to make a fashion piece, I look for how to create the best even from the least. In 2006, I was part of a group, Eden in University of Lagos, Nigeria and the head of our team had just announced his […]
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 […]