ALTHOUGH many changes have taken place in Buganda Kingdom, the making of barkcloth and its cultural values have not. <br>Kisolo, the head of the otter (ngonge) clan, is in charge of barkcloth ...

The pieces, which are being sold through the Fowler Museum Store, as well as Bedhead’s New York and Los Angeles retail stores, were inspired by artwork in ‘Second Skins: Painted Barkcloth From ...

The barkcloth is one of the oldest fabrics known to mankind. In Buganda, it is made from the bark of the mutuba tree, also known as ficus natalensis in the family Moraceae. It is commonly known as ...

Kampala — THE United Nation Education Scientific and Culture Organisation (UNESCO) in 2005 selected barkcloth as a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of humanity. The director general ...

What have you heard about the backcloth? There is a lot that has been written and majorly documented about the barkcloth, how it was prestigious and an outfit for royals. How this ended up ...

It was given to Kew in 1881 as an example of barkcloth, similar to the tapa cloth of the Pacific. The heavily folded jacket was treated in 2006 by Konstantinos Chatziantoniou, a student at the ...

The draw for this Duxbury fabric designer was a scene with upholstered furniture and drapes made of vintage-style barkcloth from her company, Full Swing Textiles. “For a 1940s flashback scene ...

The photos elicited quite a debate -- officials clad in suits, meeting a man many consider an 'herbalist', dressed in barkcloth, playing the traditional Rwandan board game 'Igisoro', as they talked.