This morning I received an email from Ananse Village. They’re a company based in California, who have a Fair Trade agreement with craftspeople in Africa. They sell clothing, musical instruments, jewellery, masks, baskets… all sorts of things.
They contacted me specifically to draw my attention to the fabrics, which I have to say are absolutely amazing.
The images above represent a 12″ swatch, and the prints are all made with wax. Some of them are amazingly detailed.
From a personal point of view, I probably wouldn’t want to have the fabrics shipped from Africa, to California, and then on to me. There must be a more direct route of buying African fabrics like this in the UK.
There’s no denying that the fabrics are gorgeous though.