Old really is gold for budding designer Jose Hendo, who is reviving an ancient material for the catwalks of Kampala. She’s turning bark cloth, a fabric fashioned from trees in Uganda for over 600 ...

The Bark Cloth Annual Festival, the first one of its kind, was held in Kiwangala, Masaka District.Kiwangala is also the cultural heartland of the bark cloth,which makes it a symbol of creativity, ...

In Uganda, designers are trying to revive interest in a cloth people there have been wearing for the past 600 or more years. “Bark cloth” is made from just that, the inner bark of the mutuba tree — a ...

Despite the increased interest in the study of the history of African textiles since the last quarter of the past century, less attention has been paid to the study of bark-cloth, a fabric design ...

The barkcloth is one of the oldest fabrics known to mankind. In Buganda, it is made from the bark of the mutuba tree, also known as ficus natalensis in the family Moraceae. It is commonly known as the ...

At his home in Busomba Village – Kyaali Parish in Mpigi District, Zaavuga has a grass-thatched structure adjacent to a Mutuba tree (Ficus natalensis). Before we sit to greet him, his attention goes to ...

Kampala — Uganda's visual artists work with various materials, but you will be hard pressed to find any medium more Ugandan than bark cloth writes Emmanuel Ssejjengo. "Bark cloth art is the oldest ...

Bark-cloth making is an ancient craft of the Baganda people who live in the Buganda kingdom in southern Uganda. Traditionally, craftsmen of the Ngonge clan, headed by a kaboggoza, the hereditary chief ...

In southwestern Uganda, villagers have found a sustainable way of conserving a tree that produces a textile called bark cloth. In protecting this heritage, one tree can renewably provide cloth for ...

On a hot summer day during Berlin's biannual fashion week, models stood on podiums in a decommissioned 1960s concrete modernist church remade into an exhibition space. Bobby Kolade's collection was ...

In southwestern Uganda, villagers have found a sustainable way of conserving a tree that produces a textile called bark cloth. In protecting this natural heritage, one tree can renewably provide cloth ...