Kitenge Textiles

If you head down to Brixton market you will find many fabric shops selling these amazing kitenge style textiles. They are so vivid in colour and graphic in style its hard to resist them when they are all piled up together.

Kitenge is an East African fabric which serves an inexpensive, informal piece of clothing that is often decorated with a huge variety of colour and pattern. Traditionally many of the designs have meanings from traditional tribal patterns to religious and political slogans.

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