Kampala — THE barkcloth plays a major role in Buganda's history and although it is regarded as a primitive fabric by some, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ...

Barkcloth is a must-have during ancestral worship because, as the B To the Baganda, it is a major link to the spiritual world. Traditionalists also wear it when communicating with the Kabaka.

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 ...

BUKOMANSIMBI, Uganda, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Barkcloth is a cherished ancient fabric among the Bantu people in western, southern and central Uganda. Among the Baganda people in central Uganda, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...