Bark cloth was the only form of fabric way back before fabrics like cotton, nylon, and polyester, among others, pushed it out and left it for the coffin.

African fabric art is a colorful and diverse representation of culture, showcasing the continent's rich tapestry of talent ...

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history. His widely acclaimed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in ...

Uganda first gave the world its barkcloth when Arabs bought it from Buganda to take it to the coast of Mombasa, Zanzibar and Pemba.

Bark cloth inspiration: ... Hendo had always designed her clothes with a touch of barkcloth, but one day at the London Fashion Week, when a South African designer failed to make it, ...

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history. His widely acclaimed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in ...

Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted "Curfew" after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece." ...

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history. His widely acclaimed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in ...

Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) by Kenyan-British painter Michael Armitage, was inspired by an attack on ferry passengers by paramilitary police in Nairobi. The painting hangs in the Museum of Modern ...