Akwa Ocha, a popular hand-woven cloth, is peculiar to the people of Anioma (Delta North senatorial district) of Delta State, which has three sub-constituencies; Aniocha/Oshimili, Ika and Ndokwa. These areas are the Igbo-speaking part of the state.Akwa-Ocha, which literally means white cloth, is designed and woven for all-purposes but can also be customized to suit […]
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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 […]
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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) […]
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Damask is a reversible figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Damasks are woven with one warp yarn and one weft yarn, usually with the pattern in warp-faced satin weave and the ground in weft-faced or satin weave. Damask is usually used for mid-to-high-quality garments, meaning […]
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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 […]
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The Senator fabric remains in the trend of men’s African traditional attire, though it is sometimes referred to as Cashmere or Wool in Nigerian parlance but even though it looks like it, it is not cashmere fabric, neither is it wool. More men are gradually getting into the world of senator fabrics. It is simple, […]
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A’nger is a fabric by the TIV speaking people of Benue State, Nigeria. It is a traditionally hand-woven fabric with black and white yarns to create beautiful features that make the cloth appear like live Zebra skin. Sometimes called and linked with its cultural source as A’nger U Tiv. Traditionally, A’nger is normally used in […]
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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 […]
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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 […]