Wax fabric is widely seen across West Africa today, but its origins trace back much further. Initially inspired by Indonesian batik and industrialized by Europeans, it was later reclaimed and ...

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Nike Davies-Okundaye is a Nigerian artist born in 1954, celebrated for her work in indigo-dyed cloth and batik. She has played a pivotal role in preserving and promoting traditional Nigerian textile ...

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African American textile artist Carole Gary Staples of Ohio has arranged these blocks into family trees, bordered with vibrant African batik fabrics. Local quilt expert Pam Pampe has prepared the ...

JAKARTA -- If I had to choose a favorite textile, and a favorite place to admire its infinite forms, it would be Indonesia's traditional batik in Thamrin City, a windowless multilevel market in ...

Photographer: "Nwankpa Design, led by Susan Nwankpa Gillespie, has designed Textile House #1, an ADU in the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A. that blends the rich heritage of West African textiles ...

from Kulai said business has been good for him and that he had recently received orders for his batik textile from buyers from Pakistan and Morocco.

The nonprofit Bebali Foundation works with nearly 60 culturally distinct community groups in eastern Indonesia to keep alive their textile traditions and natural dyeing techniques.