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Further Reading About African Textiles:

General

Clarke,D. 1997. The Art of African Textiles (Grange Books)

Coquet,M. 1998. Textiles Africains (Adam Biro, Paris)

Emery,I. 1966. The Primary Structures of Fabrics (Washington D.C.)

Idiens,D. ed. 1980. Textiles of Africa. (Bath)

Lamb,V. & Holmes,J. 1980. Nigerian Weaving (Roxford, Hertingfordbury)

Lamb,V. & Lamb,A. 1981. Sierra Leone Weaving (Roxford, Hertingfordbury)

Lamb,V. & Lamb,A. 1984. Au Cameroun Weaving-Tissage (Roxford, Hertingfordbury)

Menzel,B. 1972. Textilien Aus Westafrika (Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin)

Perani, J. & Wolff, N. 1999. Cloth, Dress, and Art Patronage In Africa (Berg, Oxford)

Picton,J. 1995. The Art of African Textiles (Barbican Art Gallery)

Picton,J. 1993. " Tradition, Technology and Lurex" in History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip-Woven Cloth (National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.)

Picton,J. & Mack,J. 1989(2nd edition) African Textiles (British Museum,London)

Polakoff,C. 1982. African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques (Routledge, London)

Renne,E. 1995. Cloth that does not die. (University of Washington, Seattle)

Schaedler,K 1987. Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara (Panterra-Verlag, Munich)

Sieber,R. 1972. African Textiles and Decorative Arts (MOMA, New York)

Spring,C. & Hudson,J. 1995. North African Textiles. (British Museum, London)

van der Plas, E. & Willemsen, M. eds. 1999. The Art of African Fashion (Prince Claus Fund/Africa World Press) 

Adire:

Barbour,J. & Simmonds,D. eds. 1971. Adire Cloth in Nigeria. (Ibadan)

Bogolan:

Aherne,T. 1992. Nakunte Diarra, Bogolanfini Artist of the Beledougou (Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington)

Aso Oke:

Clarke, D. 2001. "Money is the Cloth of Fashion: Yoruba Textiles" Hali Magazine Volume 118

Kente & Ewe:

Adler,P. and Barnard,N. 1992 .African Majesty, (Thames and Hudson, London)

Lamb,V. 1975. West African Weaving (Duckworth, London)

Ross, D. 1998. Wrapped In Pride (UCLA) - catalogue of the current Newark/UCLA Kente show

Kuba:

Adams,M. 1978. "Kuba Embroidered Cloth" African Arts 12 (1)

Darish,P. 1989. "Dressing for the Next Life: Raffia Textile Production and Use among the Kuba of Zaire" in Cloth and Human Experience ed. A.Weiner & J.Schneider (Smithsonian, Washington)

Darish,P. 1990."Dressing for Success: Ritual Occasions and Ceremonial Raffia Dress Among the Kuba of South-central Zaire" in Iowa Studies in African Art 3, (University of Iowa)

Other:

Gardi,B. 2000. "Le Boubou C'est Chic" (Editions Cristoph Merian, Basel)

Mack,J. 1989. Malagasy Textiles (Shire, Aylesbury)

See also the occasional articles in African Arts (UCLA), especially the two issues devoted to textiles - Volume 15 (3) May 1982 & Volume 25 (3) July 1992. Also even less frequent articles in Hali (London) and Textile Museum Journal (Washington).

This is not a full bibliography, but should get you started. For more sources see the bibliographies in Picton & Mack 1989, Picton 1995, and Schaedler 1987.

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