Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. (a) A ...
PARIS — South African designer Thebe Magugu, whose collections explore personal and collective narratives, is offering customers the opportunity to tell their own story through cloth. Magugu has ...
In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...
The story of wax print fabric begins not in Africa where the fabric is adored today, but on the island of Java in Indonesia. That’s because, in the 18th century, a Dutch entrepreneur Pieter Fentener ...
What does dry ice, ethonal, wax beads, and a blender have in common? It was the first attempts at making media for this wax 3D printer that [Andreas] has been building up. Wanting to produce 3D ...
We meet Pamela Abimbola Thompson a descendant of one of the famous Nana Benz, a group of women who were involved in wax print trade in the 1960's. Pamela uses TikTok to present wax print to a younger ...
Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A red and ...
Gus Casely-Hayford unravels the origin story of wax print fabric worn by Africans and finds its history spans three continents. Show more The story of wax print fabric begins not in Africa where the ...