Nigeria's textile heritage spans dozens of ethnic traditions, but few are as globally recognized as the resist-dye and weaving crafts of the Yoruba people in the south-west. Indigo-dyed adire cloth and narrow-strip aṣọ-òkè weaving have shaped West African textile identity for over a century, surviving colonial disruption and the rise of industrial textiles to remain living crafts today.
Adire cloth is worn as a wrapper, primarily by women, and has long been tied to female entrepreneurship in Abeokuta, where dyeing became bot…
By the middle of the 20th century aso oke was worn mainly at major life-cycle events, festivals and religious holy days. Weddings, chieftain…
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Nigeria's textile heritage spans dozens of ethnic traditions, but few are as globally recognized as the resist-dye and weaving crafts of the Yoruba people in the south-west. Indigo-dyed adire cloth and narrow-strip aṣọ-òkè weaving have shaped West African textile identity for over a century, surviving colonial disruption and the rise of industrial textiles to remain living crafts today.
