Out of Africa: A tapestry of traditional textiles

A resplendent display of kente, one of the royal textiles of Ghana
Picture: Alan Donovan

Africa is world famous for its wildlife, but there’s another side of it that the world knows little about — and that’s the rich diversity of textiles dating back centuries.

Also, Africans wore cloth as fine as silk, woven from spiders’ webs or intricately patterned cloth from mud dyes.