About this app

African clothing comes in a wide variety in style and design, but there is one peculiar characteristics among them all and that is the fact that they are colourful, bright and elegant and often very comfortable. African fashion has different ways of expressing their beauty and elegance. Some contains broad and pronounced embroidery while others are simple but exquisite without any embroidery, some come in as a single colour while other are expressed in beautifully mixed colours, some come with short while other with trousers. In whole traditional African clothing give beauty, shape and personality to the person wearing it. African attire has been in vogue for centuries but what makes it more appealing is the reinvention of old African fabric for designing modern and contemporary African styles

Beautiful and Unique Designs - The design and pattern made it more famous and timeless fabric around the world. Though it was manufactured during colonialism, even today many fashion designers like to use it in their designing works. The African Ankara Pattern got familiarity in western world when many youngsters of the western Africa migrated to several parts of the western world with their African prints thus, getting a universal acceptance to their Ankara prints. If the Ankara prints are made by using the original dying technique, the cost of manufacturing would become pretty low and still it will look elegant. That is also another reason for the popularity of this fabric around the world.

African fashion design originally began with a lot of animal hides and fur. All of this is a necessary part of one's attire and cultural background. However, with time, these evolved into internationally accepted and sought after designs. Today the response to an African fashion show is tremendous. Among the kinds of fibre used for clothing is raffia palm, jute, flax and silk. Natural dyes from vegetables and minerals are used to create the unique hues of colour. For hundreds of years the traditional dress of people in Africa has been garments made of brightly coloured and exquisitely designed cotton print fabric.

African Print Fabrics - African Ankara Fabric which is also known as Ankara prints is available in vibrant colors. It is also known as wax, African wax prints, Dutch wax and also as African prints. The texture and designs associated with this fabric is mostly from African tribes. A wide variety of clothes and accessories can be made with it. To make it more popular, the modern textile designers are coming up with Ankara prints on other materials such as chiffon, silk etc. It is made up of a special dying technique called batik. Batik technique resists the dye from flowing all over the cloth and creates a good pattern.

In the modern age and with the use of computers to design and print very complex images onto the cotton, African print designs have gone from strength to strength. During times of celebration or mourning of a local or national dignitary a commemorative print is often produced for the occasion. A design complete with images of famous faces, names and dates printed in three or four different colour versions can be produced and printed off in as little as two weeks, ready be worn with pride by almost everyone who attends the event, and long after. Such is importance given to cotton print fabrics within African culture.