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October 3rd, 2010



African Textile
What do the symbols/colors/patterns represent on african textiles??

thanks for ANY help!

This looks helpful for some of the symbols:

http://www.welltempered.net/adinkra/htmls/adinkra_index.htm

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North African Textiles by Christopher Spring (1996) SC


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