Fashion - Artkwaba https://www.artkwaba.com/category/fashion/ African inspired art, crossing times and borders. Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.artkwaba.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-minilogo_Plan-de-travail-1-32x32.png Fashion - Artkwaba https://www.artkwaba.com/category/fashion/ 32 32 Bogolan, the african mudcloth https://www.artkwaba.com/bogolan-the-african-mudcloth/ https://www.artkwaba.com/bogolan-the-african-mudcloth/#respond Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:46:52 +0000 https://www.artkwaba.com/?p=2654 The bogolan (-fini) comes from bogo means “clay” or “mud”, lan means “by means of” and –fini, meaning “cloth”. It is characterized by patterns representing scenes of rural or urban African life, or of the surrounding nature.

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]]> https://www.artkwaba.com/bogolan-the-african-mudcloth/feed/ 0 The Kente, a royal handwoven fabric https://www.artkwaba.com/the-kente-a-royal-handwoven-fabric/ https://www.artkwaba.com/the-kente-a-royal-handwoven-fabric/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:22:04 +0000 https://www.artkwaba.com/?p=2627 Closely linked to the history of the Akan people, the Kente or Kita is a traditional African loincloth made of hand-woven cotton or silk strips sewn together to form colorful patterns and figures.

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