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Adire Gallery

Today very little good quality adire is still being made in Nigeria and most surviving old pieces have already disappeared into museum and private collections in the USA and Europe. Unlike aso oke which Yoruba people often kept as a family heirloom for decades, adire was an everyday cloth usually worn out and discarded so very little becomes available to collectors. Each trip we make to Nigeria we find it harder to source any good quality old pieces at all. Traders who had ten or twenty pieces a decade or so ago now frequently have only one or two, if that. If you are interested in these unique and beautiful textiles you should be aware that they are fast becoming extremely rare and opportunities to add classic designs to your collection will soon disappear altogether. If there is a particular design that you are looking for please let us know and we will contact you first as soon as we find a good example. Most of these cloths are adire eleko, created using a starch resist technique, a few are created using shibori type methods of stitching, tying, and folding the fabric prior to dyeing in indigo.

All these cloths are genuine old Yoruba adire hand-dyed with indigo and collected in Nigeria. Each is in excellent condition. Full details of size of each cloth, together with price and ordering information, can be found with a larger picture by clicking on the thumbnail images. Please be patient as the images may take a minute to download. As with all our cloths we guarantee a full refund if you are not satisfied with any order. 

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Click picture below to access our newly revised Adire information resources 

(c) Duncan Clarke, Version 9/03/2009