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2. Garment District, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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   Garment District, Manhattan. Coordinates: 40.7535°N 73.9888°W. Men pulling racks of clothing on a busy sidewalk in the Garment District in 1955. The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

3. African wax prints - Wikipedia

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   African wax prints, Dutch wax prints[1][2] or Ankara, [3] are a type of common material for clothing in West Africa. They were introduced to West Africans by Dutch merchants during the 19th century, who took inspiration from native Indonesian batik designs. [4] They began to adapt their designs and colours to suit the tastes of the African market.

4. The Africa Center - Wikipedia

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   www.theafricacenter.org. The Africa Center, formerly known as the Museum for African Art and before that as the Center for African Art, is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. Founded in 1984, the museum is "dedicated to increasing public ...

5. In New York, an Exhibition Offers a Bold Reimagining of ...

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   In many Western museums, African art usually is relegated to the least desirable galleries and the objects within them—masterworks of wood, fabric, and metal—are presented beneath poor ...

6. Vlisco - Wikipedia

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   The African fabric markets were starved of Dutch Wax for the entirety of the war and when in 1945 Vlisco managed to send a shipment of a fabric called 'Six Bougies' , it was an immediate success. [ 1 ] : 30 So much so, that from 1963 onwards, all Vlisco fabrics have the text 'Guaranteed Dutch Wax Vlisco' stamped on the side, because the fabrics ...

7. African textiles - Wikipedia

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   African textiles. African textiles are textiles from various locations across the African continent. Across Africa, there are many distinctive styles, techniques, dyeing methods, and decorative and functional purposes. These textiles hold cultural significance and also have significance as historical documents of African design.