African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range f

Reveals the complex origins of African wax print textiles and traces the process of printing and dying the fabric, involving wax or indigo, to its West Indian r

Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.

Describes how African textiles are woven, and features instructions for such projects as pillows, napkins, placemats, and picture frames.