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Click on the image above
to visit our new African textile resources and links section. Latest
addition is a display of political print fabrics from francophone
Africa.
We mail cloths
regularly to collectors, museums, and dealers in the US, Japan, and
Europe. If you have any questions, criticisms, suggestions, or comments
about anything on this site please email Duncan Clarke at:
adire@btinternet.com
We
can advise on and source vintage or contemporary African costumes for
film, television, or theatrical use.
If you are in the United Kingdom why not visit us at Alfie's Antique Market, 13-25 Church St, London NW8.
Tues - Saturday, 10am - 5pm. Please note that we are no longer at
Portobello Rd. Click here
for more information about Alfie's Antique Market, including how to
find it.
If
you are looking for African cloths for use in Quilting a good range of
wax prints and batiks are available from Magie Relph at the African Fabric Shop.
NEW
LINKS
(c)
Duncan Clarke, Version 6 February 2010
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Welcome to Adire African Textiles. On the pages that follow
you will find information about and an opportunity to purchase fine
examples of a wide range of hand made African textiles including Adire,
Adinkra, Akwete, Aso-oke, Bogolan, Ewe, Kente, Kuba, and Nupe cloths.
Please click on the photo to reach our main gallery page. |
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Latest Updates:
6 February: Ewe gallery updated.
16 November: group of rare Dioula cloths added on Francophone
gallery here
For regular news of our updates, observations, musings, and
comments on African textile related news you can now follow our Blog here or our
Facebook profile here.
"THE CLOTH OF BONDOUKOU" by Duncan
Clarke
Article by me
in HALI magazine #157 Autumn 2008
documents an
important and newly discovered tradition from the Ghana/Ivory Coast
border.
See our
selection for sale here
magazine
copies available from www.Hali.com
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Use the box to search for cloths for sale in our Gallery or
information in our African Textiles Resources site.
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