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Contemporary West African textile designs. 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 These textiles hold cultural significance and also have significance as historical documents of ...
Akwete cloth is a hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia state, Nigeria is famous. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Alternative names include "Aruru" meaning "something woven", "Mkpuru Akwete" and "Akwete fabric". [ 4][ 3] This traditional Igbo weaving processes sisal ...
Known for. Textile artist. Spouse. Twins Seven Seven (divorced) Website. www .nikeartfoundation .com. Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian Yoruba and adire textile designer. She is best known as an artist for her cloth work and embroidery pieces.
Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Aso oke fabric, (Yoruba: aṣọ òkè, pronounced ah-SHAW-okay) is a hand-woven cloth of Yoruba people. Usually woven by men and women, the fabric is used to make men's gowns, called agbada and hats, called fila , as well as Yoruba women's wrappers called Iro and a Yoruba women's blouse called Buba and a gown called Komole, as well as an head ...
The Ebira people are an ethnic- linguistic group of North central Nigeria . Most Ebira people are from Kogi State and Nasarawa State. [ 2][ 3] Their language is usually classified as Nupoid and within the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. [ 4] Until the separation of Kogi State from Kwara State, Okene was seen as the ...
Adire (textile art) Adire ( Yoruba) textile is a type of dyed cloth from south west Nigeria traditionally made by Yoruba women, using a variety of resist-dyeing techniques. [ 1][ 2] The word 'Adire' originally derives from the Yoruba words 'adi' which means to tie and 're' meaning to dye. [ 3] It is a material designed with wax-resist methods ...
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. [ 1 ] It depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland, a cultural area in modern-day southeastern Nigeria, and the subsequent appearance of European missionaries and colonial forces in the late 19th century.