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Ukara Ekpe
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Nsibidi is used to design the ‘ukara ekpe’ woven material which is usually dyed blue (but also green and red)…
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Nsibidi is used to design the ‘ukara ekpe’ woven material which is usually dyed blue (but also green and red)…
Multiple creation stories and proposed dates exist for Akwete cloth, though evidence of their existence goes back as far as…
The earliest pieces of this type were probably simple tied designs on cotton cloth, handspun and woven locally (rather like…
Embroidery was used for both decorative and functional purposes. The embroidery techniques, such as buttonhole stitch and cut-pile embroidery, are…
Stripweaving, a centuries-old textile manufacturing technique of creating cloth by weaving strips together, is characteristic of weaving in West Africa,…