Bark cloth is a significant and sacred cloth in the Buganda Kingdom where I come from in Southern Uganda. It was made for me by my sister after I was selected for the highly competitive Mandela ...

At the age of 85, Mzee Eriyazali, has been through thick and thin but has done no other business apart from bark cloth making and hunting. The old man says that girls around his home village ...

She’s turning bark cloth, a fabric fashioned from trees in Uganda for over 600 years, into haute couture - and turning heads in the process. “What’s so exciting about it is the shapes I was ...

Armitage paints on lubugo cloth, which is made from fig-tree bark, in part to ground his work in East African history. His widely acclaimed work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in ...

Bark cloth While this fabric is hundreds of years old, London based Ugandan designer Jose Hendo is using bark fabric (yes, bark from trees) to create super-stylish and avant-garde outfits for the ...

Marsky's Birch Bark collection is available at Scheuer Linens, 340 Sutter St., San Francisco, (415) 392-2813, Whole Foods Market, 6910 McKinley St., Sebastopol, (707) 829-9801 or by requesting a ...

She’s turning bark cloth, a fabric fashioned from trees in Uganda for over 600 years, into haute couture - and turning heads in the process. “What’s so exciting about it is the shapes I was ...

As part of our commitment to accessibility and transparency, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art is placing its collection records online. Please note that some records are incomplete ...