Mud cloth might be trendy, but it’s anything but new. Mud cloth is a centuries-old, hand-dyed textile art that originated in West Africa with the women of Mali’s Bamana culture, according to the ...

Dédé Rose Gamélé Creppy, who has died aged 89, was one of west Africa’s most influential wax cloth traders. She was the youngest, and the last living, “Nana Benz” – the legendary first generation of ...

The Ahmedabad Textile Industrys Research Association in collaboration with the Defence Research and Development Organisation has produced a high quality cloth to make masks of 99 per cent filter ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When Julie Paterson started her fabric design company, Cloth, 20 years ago, she was amazed that so few ...

Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion of women. There are a ...

Ahmedabad: A number of textile traders based at the iconic New Cloth Market have decided to set up a new base in the Piplaj area of the city. Around 125 textile traders have agreed in principle to a ...

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