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Ukara Ekpe

Nsibidi is used to design the ‘ukara ekpe’ woven material which is usually dyed blue (but also green and red)…

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Akwete

Multiple creation stories and proposed dates exist for Akwete cloth, though evidence of their existence goes back as far as…

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Adire

The earliest pieces of this type were probably simple tied designs on cotton cloth, handspun and woven locally (rather like…

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Embroidery

Embroidery was used for both decorative and functional purposes. The embroidery techniques, such as buttonhole stitch and cut-pile embroidery, are…

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Textile weaving

Stripweaving, a centuries-old textile manufacturing technique of creating cloth by weaving strips together, is characteristic of weaving in West Africa,…

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