The quilt exhibition “Praise Is What I Do” is now on display at the Black Heritage Gallery. The installation showcases ...

At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ... To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half ...

Featuring vivid cultural textiles, eclectic accessories and elaborately constructed hairstyles, artist Thandiwe Muriu’s ...

He says importing fabric into South Africa means paying ... limit import tariffs for fashion brands that use traditional African textiles produced on the continent.” Many designers debut their ...

Made in Senegal' vogue hemmed in by textiles slump Fatima Ba compliments a customer trying on one of her designs -- a stylish silk dress in ochre with a gold motif made from start to finish in Senegal ...

One of the things that bring these communities together is dressing. African fabrics are known for being colourful and versatile. The latest African fashion dresses borrow some elements from ...

LOS ANGELES — As an urban planner, Marina Martos Dabel was dreaming about adding an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, long before she and her husband, Dr. Pascal Dabel, purchased their Silver Lake home ...

Not only will such devices be embedded on textile substrates, but an electronics device or system could become the fabric itself (see for instance: Nanotechnology e-textiles for bio-monitoring and ...

I thought about creating an interesting mix of modernist principles and West African textiles,” Gillespie says. “Part of it was softening the severity of a typical solid facade by creating mor ...