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African Print:
A Textile Story Made in Kyoto

Price:
2,500 yen (JPY)
Author(s):
Seiji Namiki, Aya Ueda, and Mihoko Aoki
Language(s):
Japanese
Size:
210 × 927 × 13 mm, 320 g
Pages:
178
Binding:
softcover
Release date:
20190330
ISBN:
978-4-86152-729-6 C0072

The story of a surprising—but enduring—link between Kyoto and Africa.

It's a little-known fact that in the 1960s and 1970s, Kyoto was a center of production for textiles intended expressly for export to Africa. With their vivid animal, plant, and geometric motifs— "Sun," "Cashew Nuts"—and kaleidoscopic explosion of colors, these "African prints," as they are known, remain a part of the lives of the people of that continent to this day. Here is a treasury of fabrics designed for Africa, and made in Japan.

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