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View article: Reflecting on Collecting: My Romance with African Textiles
Reflecting on Collecting: My Romance with African Textiles Open
As an academic arriving in Nigeria on a three-year university leave, I became fascinated by a wide variety of handcrafted textiles and began collecting them for personal use. I saw them everywhere as I traveled and found that little docume…
View article: An Unexpected luxury: Wild silk, fiber, yarn and fabric production among the Yoruba of Nigeria.
An Unexpected luxury: Wild silk, fiber, yarn and fabric production among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Open
Mulberry silk produced in China
\nis the type most recognized
\nand used in silk garments. There
\nare at least seven additional silk
\nfiber sources. The Yoruba are
\na large ethnic group in Nigeria
\nwho use native silk that they call
\n…
View article: A Ping-Pong Example of Cultural Authentication and Kalabari Cut-Thread Cloth
A Ping-Pong Example of Cultural Authentication and Kalabari Cut-Thread Cloth Open
The concept of cultural authentication was first introduced to analyze the check and plaid textile called Indian madras used by the Kalabari people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria to produce a design by subtraction on the cloth which they su…
View article: Discussion of Panel "Textile Tradition and Fashion in the Context of Globalization"
Discussion of Panel "Textile Tradition and Fashion in the Context of Globalization" Open
The papers by Hazel Lutz, Heather Akou, and Cathy Daly raise several overlapping issues that bridge three words-two, fashion and tradition that we have used commonly and perhaps, carelessly. The third, globalization, that is newer in our v…
View article: Review of Mongol Costumes, by H.H. Hansen (1993). (London/New York: Thames and Hudson and Copenhaven: Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project.)
Review of Mongol Costumes, by H.H. Hansen (1993). (London/New York: Thames and Hudson and Copenhaven: Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project.) Open
Book review of the book Mongul Costumes republished in 1993. It was originally published in 1950.
View article: Dress and Identity
Dress and Identity Open
Development of a theoretical framework for understanding linkages between identity and dress depends on
\ncareful selection and definition of terms and development of a broad, holistic view of Social Aspects of Dress. A
\ncomprehensive def…
View article: The Transformation of Men into Masquerades and Indian Madras into Masquerade Cloth in Buguma, Nigeria
The Transformation of Men into Masquerades and Indian Madras into Masquerade Cloth in Buguma, Nigeria Open
The Kalahari Ijo people of the Niger Delta area of southeastern Nigeria use a group of dark indigo-blue cloths with white patterning to cover the faces of masquerade performers. Subsumed under the name of alubite (masquerade cloth) are at …