Sentence examples for indigenous fabrics from inspiring English sources

"It didn't originate here, and it's hard to celebrate it as ours when we have our own indigenous fabrics," she told me one afternoon in her studio.

The festival will culminate with the Laro Fashion Show on 30 May, showcasing children's designs inspired by indigenous fabrics.

Although taken to be a quintessentially African tradition, wax print was in fact manufactured and exported to west Africa in the 19th century by such factories as Manchester's ABC Wax, a trade that overshadowed the production of indigenous African fabrics.

The body is often cloaked and you seem drawn to the fabric and clothing of indigenous cultures.

In 1985, she opened a shop in Sydney called Designer Aboriginals, selling the work of designers including her own fabrics, and staffed by her Indigenous female students.

Early French settlers made their own fabrics and clothes and bartered with indigenous peoples for animal skins and pelts, with beaver predominating in Canada and deer in Louisiana.

Patricia Guerra, the creative director of Aua had spent months negotiating with indigenous communities to work with them on producing designs for fabrics for her collections.

These are not examples of tears in the fabric of Canada they are instances of the preexisting, Indigenous systems of government showing through.

These are not examples of tears in the fabric of Canada they are instances of the pre-existing, Indigenous systems of government showing through.

The proprietors use local leather and fabrics created by native craftspeople from the country's north, supporting indigenous cultures through fair market prices.

Dancing Earth performed Rulan Tangen's idea of indigenous American idioms, "Walking on the Edge of Water," which featured various shades of azure fabric, striking white or blue patterns painted on the skin, and terra-cotta bowls.