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Nsibidi is used to design the ‘ukara ekpe’ woven material which is usually dyed blue (but also green and red) and is covered in nsibidi symbols and motifs. Ukara ekpe cloths are woven in Abakaliki, and then they are designed…
Multiple creation stories and proposed dates exist for Akwete cloth, though evidence of their existence goes back as far as the 17th and 18th century, possibly even to the origin of Igboland itself. The Federal Commission of Museums and Monuments…
The earliest pieces of this type were probably simple tied designs on cotton cloth, handspun and woven locally (rather like those still produced in Mali), but in the early decades of the 20th century new access to large quantities of…
Embroidery was used for both decorative and functional purposes. The embroidery techniques, such as buttonhole stitch and cut-pile embroidery, are often simple, but their intricate effects are a result of the skill-level and final pattern design used. For example, hemmed…
Stripweaving, a centuries-old textile manufacturing technique of creating cloth by weaving strips together, is characteristic of weaving in West Africa, who credit Mande weavers and in particular the Tellem people as the first to master the art of weaving complex…
