The Black Cloth

The Black Cloth
Title The Black Cloth PDF eBook
Author Bernard Binlin Dadié
Publisher Univ of Massachusetts Press
Pages 0
Release 1987
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780870235573

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Presents a collection of sixteen African folktales by poet, novelist, critic, and statesman, Bernard Binlin Dadie that represents the oral tradition of his native Ivory Coast.

Kente Colors

Kente Colors
Title Kente Colors PDF eBook
Author Debbi Chocolate
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 34
Release 1997-10-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0802775284

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A rhyming description of the kente cloth costumes of the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana and a portrayal of the symbolic colors and patterns.

Spirits of the Cloth

Spirits of the Cloth
Title Spirits of the Cloth PDF eBook
Author Carolyn Mazloomi
Publisher Clarkson Potter
Pages 202
Release 1998
Genre Art
ISBN

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The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.

Cloth in West African History

Cloth in West African History
Title Cloth in West African History PDF eBook
Author Colleen E. Kriger
Publisher Rowman Altamira
Pages 237
Release 2006-06-08
Genre History
ISBN 0759114234

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In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with Muslim societies and with Europe. Cloth in West African History thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region and on the local, regional, and global processes that shaped it. A variety of readers will find its account and insights into the African past and culture valuable, and will appreciate the connections made between the local concerns of small-scale weavers in African villages, the emergence of an indigenous textile industry, and its integration into international networks.

Bogolanfini Mud Cloth

Bogolanfini Mud Cloth
Title Bogolanfini Mud Cloth PDF eBook
Author Sam Hilu
Publisher Schiffer Craft
Pages 168
Release 2005
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN

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This is an important resource for designers, textile lovers, and African art scholars. Over 200 color photographs beautifully illustrate the mud-cloth art of the Bogolan people in Mali, Africa. Their art form, in which geometric, abstract, and semi-abstract patterns are hand painted with mud dyes on hand woven cloth, has gained enormous popularity internationally. The CD included with the book contains over 200 patterns, and is compatible with most graphic, design, and editing programs.

Force and Matter

Force and Matter
Title Force and Matter PDF eBook
Author James Clarence Linden Adams
Publisher
Pages 468
Release 1908
Genre Force and energy
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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1
Title The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author Christopher Breward
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 849
Release 2023-07-31
Genre History
ISBN 1108851487

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Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.