FASHION & TEXTILES: AFRICA

Adamson, Joy. The Peoples of Kenya. 1st ed. (New York: Harcourt, 1967).

[author]. History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip Woven Cloth: Papers Presented at a Symposium Organized by the National Museum of African Art, 1989.

Bishop, Catherine P. “African Occasional Textiles: Vernacular Landscapes of Development.” African Arts. 47, no. 4 (2014): 72–85.

Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie. Wax (Paris: Hoëbeke, 2017).

Clarke, Duncan. The Art of African Textiles (London: Grange-Books, 1997).

Cooksey, Susan, and Cynthia J. Becker. Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas (Gainesville [Fla.]: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2011).

Daly, M. Catherine. “Iria Bo Appearance at Kalabari Funerals.” African Arts 21, no. 1 (1987): 58–86.

Danford, John. Nigeria in Costume. 3rd ed. (Lagos: The Shell Company of Nigeria LTD, 1965).

Donovan, Nancy, and Jill Last. Ethiopian Costumes (Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Tourism Commission, 1991).

Eicher, Joanne Bubolz. Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Volume 1, Africa (Oxford: Berg, 2010). https://doi.org/10.2752/BEWDF.

Eicher, Joanne Bubolz. Nigerian Handcrafted Textiles (Ile-Ifẹ, Nigeria: University of Ife̩ press, 1976).

Eicher, Joanne Bubolz, and Tonye victor Erekosima. “Kalabari Funerals: Celebration and Display.” African Arts 21 (1987): 38–45.

Faber, Paul. Long Live the President! Portrait-Cloths from Africa (Amsterdam: Kit Publishers, 2010).

Fauque, Claude, and Otto Wollenweber. Tissus d’Afrique (Paris: Syros-Alternatives, 1991).

Gardi, Bernhard. Boubou, c’est Chic: Gewänder Aus Mali Und Anderen Ländern Westafrikas (Basel: C. Merian, 2000).

Gillow, John. African Textiles: Colour and Creativity across a Continent. Compact edition. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2016).

———, ed. Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa. 1. publ. Fabric Folios (London: British Museum Press, 2001).

Gott, Suzanne. “Asante Hightimers and the Fashionable Display of Women’s Wealth in Contemporary Ghana.” Fashion Theory, no. 2 (2009): 141.

Gott, Suzanne, Kristyne Loughran, Betsy D. Quick, Leslie W. Rabine, and Fowler Museum at UCLA, eds. African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style Fowler Museum Textile Series, no. 14 (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2017).

Grosfilley, Anne. African Wax Print Textiles (München London New York: Prestel, 2018).

Gumpert, Lynn, Kofi Anyidoho, John Picton, and Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, eds. The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Recent Art (New York, NY: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008).

Hansen, Karen Tranberg, and D. Soyini Madison. African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474280068?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections.

Hilu, Sam, and Irwin Hersey. Textile Art of the Bakuba: Velvet Embroideries in Raffia A Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2003).

Idiens, Dale, ed. Textiles of Africa (Bath: Pasold Research Fund, 1980).

Lamb, Venice, and Judy Holmes. Nigerian Weaving (Hertingfordbury: Roxford, 1980).

Lamb, Venice, and Alastair Lamb. Sierra Leone Weaving (Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire: Roxford Books, 1984).

Lynch, Annette, and Mitchell D. Strauss, eds. Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Meurant, Georges. Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba (New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1986).

Meurant, Georges, and Robert Farris Thompson. Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest (New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1996).

Mourning and Memory: Factory-Printed Textiles and the Baule of Cote d’Ivoire (DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1996). http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/859.

Pemberton, John, Rowland Abiodun, Ulli Beier, and Mead Art Museum (Amherst College). Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: Yoruba Textiles and Photographs from the Beier Collection (Amherst, Mass.: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 2004).

Picton, John, Rayda Becker, Pauline Duponchel, Jackie Guille, Carol Brown, and Barbican Art Gallery, eds. The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex. Reprinted. (London: Barbican Art Gallery, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1999).

Picton, John, and John Mack. African Textiles: Looms, Weaving and Design (London: British Museum Publications for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1979).

Plankensteiner, Barbara, Nath Mayo Adediran, Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria), Nigeria, and National Museum (Ibadan, Nigeria), eds. African Lace: A History of Trade, Creativity and Fashion in Nigeria (Ghent: Snoeck, 2010).

Ross, Doran H., and Agbenyega Adedze. Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, no. 2 (Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998).

Rovine, Victoria. African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear African Expressive Cultures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015).

Rovine, V.L. “Continuity, Innovation, Fashion Three Genres of Malian Embroidery.” AFRICAN ARTS 44, no. 3 (2011): 58–67.

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand. Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara (München: Panterra, 1987).

Spencer, Anne M. In Praise of Heroes: Contemporary African Commemorative Cloth: An Exhibition at the Newark Museum, September 14, 1982-February 27, 1983 (Newark, N.J: Newark Museum, 1982).

Spring, Christopher. African Arms and Armor (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993)

Spring, Christopher. African Textiles Today (London: The British Museum Press ; [Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Books, in association with British Museum Press, 2012).

Spring, Christopher, and Julie Hudson. Silk in Africa. 1. publ. Fabric Folios (London: British Museum Press, 2002).

Sylvanus, Nina. Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa (Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Thakar, Karun, ed. African Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection (Munich ; New York: Prestel, 2015).

Torntore, Susan J., ed. Cloth Is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives (St. Paul, Minn: The Goldstein Museum of Design ; Dept. of Design, Housing, and Apparel, Univ. of Minnesota, 2001).

Tyrrell, Barbara. Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa (Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968).

Victoria L Rovine. “Style Migrations: South-South Networks of African Fashion.” Artl@s Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2016).