Most of us who enjoy good design are able to identify kente cloth at 50 paces. But the cognoscenti of African design will tell you this colorful cloth is only one of many exotic fabrics. Ernestine Ray ...

Large bundles of fabric is what retired Detroit Public School teacher Patricia L. Millender brought back from her rather recent trips to South Africa and Ghana. "This past February, I traveled to ...

In his bright, paint-splashed studio space in the South End, artist Stephen Hamilton unfurls a length of hand-dyed indigo fabric. Around five feet long with cowrie shell embroidered edges, the dark ...