Textiles of Africa
Heritage/Ethiopia
Heritage — East Africa

Textile Heritage of Ethiopia

Ethiopia's textile heritage centres on the hand-spun cotton weaving traditions of the Amhara and Tigrayan highlands. The habesha kemis — a narrow-strip woven dress finished with intricately patterned tibeb borders — remains one of Africa's most recognizable ceremonial garments, still hand-woven for weddings and religious holidays and worn by diaspora communities worldwide.

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Ethiopia's textile heritage centres on the hand-spun cotton weaving traditions of the Amhara and Tigrayan highlands. The habesha kemis — a narrow-strip woven dress finished with intricately patterned tibeb borders — remains one of Africa's most recognizable ceremonial garments, still hand-woven for weddings and religious holidays and worn by diaspora communities worldwide.

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