enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Elephant pants - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_pants

   Tourists wearing elephant pants at Wat Arun in Bangkok. Elephant pants are a style of loose-fitting trousers made of a light-weight fabric featuring printed elephant patterns. . They are mainly sold in Thailand and Southeast Asia, and have mostly been associated with backpackers, but since 2022 they have also seen a surge in popularity among local Tha

3. Shweshwe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shweshwe

   Sotho woman wearing a brown shweshwe dress. Shweshwe (/ ˈ ʃ w ɛ ʃ w ɛ /) [1] is a printed dyed cotton fabric widely used for traditional Southern African clothing. [2] [3] Originally dyed indigo, the fabric is manufactured in a variety of colours and printing designs characterised by intricate geometric patterns.

4. African textiles - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_textiles

   Desired patterns were a result of repetition of processes over time. Ghana: Adinkra symbols representing proverbs and aphorisms were stenciled on fabric using carved calabash stamps [23] and a vegetable-based dye to make Adinkra cloths traditionally worn by royalty and spiritual leaders. Adinkra cloths originated from the Bono Akan tribe of Ghana.

5. Akwete cloth - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwete_cloth

   By the 1800’s most Akwete weavers used only imported cotton and found ways to create patterns more quickly, such as sewing two or three stripes together. Access to European weaving methods additionally led to the Akwete utilizing the 2-yard-long European standard size for cloth.

6. Margarete Steiff - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarete_Steiff

   After training as a seamstress, she was able to raise enough money to purchase a sewing machine by teaching people to play the zither. She began making clothes, eventually opening her own store in 1877. Around this time, Margarete came across a sewing pattern for a toy elephant, as well as patterns for mice and rabbits.

7. Pattern (sewing) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_(sewing)

   Three patterns for pants (2022) Pattern making is taught on a scale of 1:4, to conserve paper. Storage of patterns Fitting a nettle/canvas-fabric on a dress form. In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled.