African textiles
Subtitle: color and creativity across a continent
By: John Gillow
Edition: Compact edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780500292211
Subjects: African Art; Catalogs; Handicraft; Textile crafts; Clothing and dress; Textile fabrics; Decoration and ornament
Other titles: African textiles, colour and creativity across a continent
Description: Comprehensive survey of the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the entire African continent, illustrated with over 570 spectacular color photographs ... With a useful glossary and map, a guide to collections open to the public, and references for further reading.
Notes: Originally published: 2003.

"With 585 illustrations, 572 in color."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction The; title: Diversity of African textiles --; title: West Africa -- -- Introduction; title: Stripweaves --; title: The Tripod loom stripweaves of Sierra Leone and Liberia --; title: Ashanti stripweaves --; title: Ewe stripweaves --; title: Djerma weaving of Niger and Burkina-Faso --; title: Woolen stripweaves of the Niger bend --; title: Nigerian horizontal-loom weaving --; title: Yoruba lace weave --; title: Nigerian women's vertical looms --; title: The Supplementary weft cloths of Ijebu-Ode and Akwete --; title: Tie and dye --; title: Nigerian tie and dye --; title: Tie and dye of the Dida, Ivory Coast --; title: Stitched resist --; title: Yoruba stitched resist --; title: Machine-stitched resist --; title: Yoruba and Bauleʹ warp ikat --; title: Nigerian starch-resist by hand -- Stencilled starch-resist --; title: Wax resist --; title: Mali mud cloths --; title: Adinkra stamped cloths of Ghana --; title: Stamped, stencilled and dyed clothing from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali --; title: Fante flags from Ghana --; title: Painted calligraphy cloths and amulets --; title: Embroidered robes of the Hausa and the Nupe --; title: Yoruba beadwork --; title: North Africa -- -- Introduction; title: Berber vertical looms --; title: Ground weaves --; title: Henna-dyed Anti-atlas woollens --; title: Algerian Berber weaves --; title: Berber wool and cotton weaves of Tunisia --; title: Horizontal loom urban weaves --; title: Pit-looms of Egypt --; title: Tapestry weaves of Egypt and Morocco --; title: The Lampas weaves of Fez and Tetouan --; title: Moroccan tie and dye --; title: South Tunisian tie and dye --; title: Mediterranean-influenced urban embroidery --; title: Ottoman-influenced urban embroidery --; title: Tunisian-influenced urban embroidery --; title: Tunisian metal-thread embroidery --; title: The Embroidery of Siwa Oasis, Egypt --; title: Egyptian appliqueʹ --; title: Assyut silvered work on net, Egypt --; title: East Africa -- -- Introduction; title: The Cotton shawls of Ethiopia --; title: Ethiopian embroidery --; title: Leather, shell and beadwork --; title: Bark cloth of Uganda --; title: Kangas and kikois --; title: Central Africa -- -- Introduction; title: Cameroon raphia weaving --; title: Ndop resist-dyed cloth of grasslands Cameroon --; title: Kuba raphia weaving in the Congo --; title: Kuba appliqueʹd and embroidered skirts --; title: Shoowa cut-pile embroidery, the Congo --; title: Tied and stitched-resist textiles of the Kuba, the Congo --; title: Pygmy and Kuba bark cloth, the Congo --; title: Bead and shell work of the Congo and Cameroon --; title: Crocheted hats from Cameroon --; title: Feathered hats of Cameroon --; title: Southern Africa -- -- Introduction; title: Zulu beadwork --; title: Ndebele beadwork --; title: Xhosa beadwork --; title: Madagascan raphia --; title: Madagascan silk ---- Glossary-- Museum Collections.