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 ...
Bark cloth has been used in Uganda for centuries as clothing and for ceremonial purposes. Made from the Ficus tree's inner ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
UGANDA’S bark cloth has been named as part of the world’s collective heritage recognised by UNESCO. Speaking yesterday, Augustine Omare Okurut, who heads the Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The traditional Ganda barkcloth, is on its way to becoming a designer material in the leading fashion houses of the world. Oliver Heintz, a German consultant and proprietor of Bark Clothe (Uganda) ...
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 ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dress and sash, made from dark brown ...
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