The Meaning Behind the Patterns: 10 Skills in 90 Seconds
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Cloth as Language: Why African Textiles Carry Meaning
Why do scholars describe African textiles as a communication system rather than purely decorative fabric?
Because color, pattern, and motif encode specific meanings — recording history, expressing identity, and conveying social messages — and those meanings shift based on context, functioning like a visual language.
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