Los Angeles, California. Architect & Interior Designer: Nwankpa Design / @nwankpadesign. Footprint: 1,182-square-foot house and 281-square-foot deck. St ...

Nigeria's textile production was once a vibrant, booming sector and a key part of its economy. But the industry has since ...

At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ... To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half ...

Winston-Salem State University: Winston-Salem, 1992. Draws parallels between African fabric motifs and designs found in African American patchwork quilts. Leon, Eli. Who=d A Thought It: Improvisation ...

Africa stands on the cusp of a game-changing opportunity to reshape its role in the global textile and apparel industry. According to TradeMap data, the continent currently takes a miniscule size ...

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 ...

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 ...