The ancient craft of bark cloth finds new uses. A passion for botanical-based fashion leads to the sacred and rare bark cloth of southern Uganda ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uganda: Making Bark Cloth for 75 Years. ... At the age of 85, Mzee Eriyazali, has been through thick and thin but has done no other business apart from bark cloth making and hunting.

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 ...

The Unesco director general on November 25 proclaimed the art of bark cloth making in Uganda one of the 43 new masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Gonzaga notes that the bark cloth is made out of the bark of the Mutuba tree. “A tree during its existence of around 40 years old, can produce up to 400 square metres of the bark cloth,” he adds.

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 ...

She’s turning bark cloth, a fabric fashioned from trees in Uganda for over 600 years, into haute couture - and turning heads in the process. “What’s so exciting about it is the shapes I was ...