Welcome to Adire African Textiles

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.

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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.

Latest Updates:

5 June: Asooke gallery updated.

29 May: Agbada robes gallery updated.

9 May: Ewe gallery updated

11 March: Nigerian women's gallery updated.

"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

Use the box to search for cloths for sale in our Gallery or information in our African Textiles Resources site.

Web Gallery Resources

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