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 ...

So when we talk about these African prints, what are we really talking about? The patterns found on Dutch wax prints. Dutch wax is a kind of resin-printed fabric that has long been manufactured in ...

The Dutch created Ankara prints while attempting to imitate the Indonesian Batik patterns. And the West African communities popularized this textile. So who can claim ownership of this textile?

The way one dresses can express their heritage, culture, style and so much more. African-print textiles, which were actually inspired by batik or wax-resist cloth from Indonesia, have been used to ...

Big, expressive and colorful prints echo through the fall ... given that we are not African. The story of these textiles is that of a larger, global narrative.” ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

Soon, the new fabric edged out indigenous materials ... 2016 [Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters] In those early days of the African wax print, entrepreneurial African women worked with European ...