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African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction

African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles An Introduction MacKenzie Moon Ryan extiles, through their very materiality, envelop and in the layers of complexity inherent in each textile’s creation, use, connect people. Textile threads result from farmers’ and very materiality. crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and insect col- The essays included in this special issue dedicated to the study of onies, as well as those produced through chemical fashionable African textiles embody the geographic spread within means. Spinners transform raw cotton and wool and beyond the continent. They take as their subjects textiles and Tinto workable fibers. Dyers transform the otherwise their related spheres across the early modern, colonial, modern, neutral colors of fibers into bright and contrasting tones. Weavers, and contemporary periods. Textiles woven by male urban arti- through skillful and creative industry, interlock fibers in ways that sans on draw looms, by contemporary artists and women weavers result in plain weave, figural and geometric motifs, at once balanc - on upright tapestry looms, by men on horizontal looms, and by ing dyed threads with weaving technologies to culminate in attrac- mechanical production in factories are all featured herein. The tive and desirable cloth (Figs. 1–2). textiles produced span those which clothe http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Arts MIT Press

African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction

Ryan, MacKenzie Moon
African Arts , Volume 56 (3): 2 – Sep 1, 2023
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African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles An Introduction MacKenzie Moon Ryan extiles, through their very materiality, envelop and in the layers of complexity inherent in each textile’s creation, use, connect people. Textile threads result from farmers’ and very materiality. crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and insect col- The essays included in this special issue dedicated to the study of onies, as well as those produced through chemical fashionable African textiles embody the geographic spread within means. Spinners transform raw cotton and wool and beyond the continent. They take as their subjects textiles and Tinto workable fibers. Dyers transform the otherwise their related spheres across the early modern, colonial, modern, neutral colors of fibers into bright and contrasting tones. Weavers, and contemporary periods. Textiles woven by male urban arti- through skillful and creative industry, interlock fibers in ways that sans on draw looms, by contemporary artists and women weavers result in plain weave, figural and geometric motifs, at once balanc - on upright tapestry looms, by men on horizontal looms, and by ing dyed threads with weaving technologies to culminate in attrac- mechanical production in factories are all featured herein. The tive and desirable cloth (Figs. 1–2). textiles produced span those which clothe

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