With its colourful swirling fabric panels, the African Yorùbá masquerade costume known as the egúngún mask is both a potent symbol of belief and a source of entertainment. Worn by a ritual ...

Since Africa is so vast, different regions of Africa have unique ways of creating their clothing, according to Contemporary African Art. “Adire” is clothing made from indigo-dyed cloth from the Yoruba ...

Adire is a traditional Nigerian textile that is famous for its indigo-dyed patterns produced by resist-dye techniques. Artisans use techniques such as tying, stitching, or applying wax to the fabric ...

The Yoruba Egungun masquerade of Nigeria is characterized by this full costume, which gives a sense of the impact of the spirit. The ensemble is made up of layers of cloth.

"Cloth in West African History". Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2006. xix + 213 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7591-0422-8. Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History ...

Yoruba artist Label Text ... The costume consists of a large number of cloth strips and panels of various lengths that are suspended from a wood board that is covered with cloth. ... BIG/small, ...

Little children are constantly humming and twirling and scribbling and telling stories. Little by little, though, they learn that there is a time and a place for these things. Works of art get hung… ...

In Yoruba language, aso means cloth, and ofi is the traditional wooden loom used to weave the cloth. Therefore, aso-ofi loosely translates as the hand-woven cloth from the wooden loom.

Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) now on view through Oct. 24, explores the sub-Saharan tradition of silk production through indigenous and imported ...