This week’s Mix It Up suggestion is for the orange lover. Each print has vibrant orange complimented with blue. A darker blue on the Orange Guineafowl print and a lighter blue on the Orange and Blue Floral Kitenge. West African meets East Africa in print form.
The guineafowl print, from Ghana, would be great to add accents to an item or garment made from the floral kitenge, from Tanzania. Maybe the collar or sleeves to a dress or bag handles for a tote.
The combination is anything but subtle and definitely for a showstopping item!
Here are two prints from Ghana that go well together. Contrasting geometry with florals. One with a large pattern and the other with a much smaller pattern. They both have pink …
Our fabric of the week is a colour combination; turquoise and chocolate brown. We have a selection of shweshwe prints in this particular colour and there is something just so …
Typically, wax prints are sold in 6 or 12 yard lengths. These long lengths allow people to sew entire outfits from the same fabric. In West Africa for example, these …
One of the many cool things about wax prints fabric, especially when they are from the same manufacturer, is that different designs often have the same colour palette. Here at …
Go bumble bee mode with a combination of black and yellow. Well technically, the ankara is blue and yellow but you get the idea. Our latest mix-it-up selection consists of …
Mix It Up: Oranges and Blue
This week’s Mix It Up suggestion is for the orange lover. Each print has vibrant orange complimented with blue. A darker blue on the Orange Guineafowl print and a lighter blue on the Orange and Blue Floral Kitenge. West African meets East Africa in print form.
The guineafowl print, from Ghana, would be great to add accents to an item or garment made from the floral kitenge, from Tanzania. Maybe the collar or sleeves to a dress or bag handles for a tote.
The combination is anything but subtle and definitely for a showstopping item!
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