Adire Center

Adire Center The Adire and African Fabrics Center (AAFC) was set up under Olusegun Obasanjo Library Foundation, for the Global promotion of Adire and African fabrics.

Adire is the name given to indigo dyed cloth produced by Yoruba women of south western Nigeria using a variety of resist dye techniques. Adire translates as tie and dye, and the earliest cloths were probably simple tied designs on locally-woven hand-spun cotton cloth much like those still produced in Mali. In the early decades of the twentieth century however, the new access to large quantities of

imported shirting material made possible by the spread of European textile merchants in certain Yoruba towns, notably Abeokuta, enabled women dyers to become both artists and entrepreneurs in a booming new medium.

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OLusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Complex, Presidential Boulevard,
Abeokuta
234

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+2347062694725

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Adire Fabrics, Adire cloths, Adire fashion adaptations.

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