African Designs from Traditional Sources


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Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs




The Spirit of African Design


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African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home




Traditional African Designs


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Over 200 pieces of clip art from various countries in Africa, including representations of people, animals, designs, borders, plants and jewelery. A resource for graphic design and collage, or as a source of jewelry design.




African Spaces


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The diversity and complexity of African vernacular architecture remain widely unknown both to the general public and to architects. Yet Upper Volta (Burkino Faso) encompasses an astonishing variety of design principles and building techniques that belie the widespread image of the primitive hut so readily associated with rural Africa. This provides a convincing interpretation of the relationship between spatial organisation and daily activity in Gurunsi life.




African Designs Coloring Book


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Thirty large, ready-to-color illustrations, all adapted from traditional African designs, reflect the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Carefully rendered from authentic artifacts are a Moorish textile pattern, an Ashanti carved door panel, an antelope-shaped wooden headdress from Mali, an Ethiopian cross, and other motifs.




Africa Coloring Book


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Download a printable copy of this African adult coloring book bestseller This fantastic African coloring book by best-selling artist Alisa Calder is the perfect way to relax, relieve stress, and let your creativity flow. Contains 30 pages of African designs filled with the people, places, and animals of the African continent. Download and print on any type of paper. One full-size image per page. Large 8.5" x 11" pages. Perfect adult coloring book to unwind and de-stress. Provides hours of creative relaxation. Designs offer a range of complexity from beginner to advanced. Makes a great gift! Get your copy now. Just click the buy button and get ready to relax and start coloring ... Categories: Africa coloring books, African coloring book, Africa adult coloring book, Africa coloring book for grown-ups




A Print for Ami


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Ami is finally getting a print dress. Her print will be tailor-made by Sisi Bisi, Freetown's finest seamstress and fashion designer. Join Ami and her mother Titi as they visit Sisi Bisi at Kabaslot Designs. A Print for Ami is part of an early reader series that celebrates African culture while helping children ages 3-6 learn phonics. Each page has simple short vowel sounds to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Practice short vowel sound "i" with A Print for Ami.




African Textiles Today


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African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.




African Fashion, Global Style


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African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.




Creating African Fashion Histories


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Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.