这本有见地的，与其探索的面料一样丰富多彩的书探讨了非洲传统纺织品，并揭示了一段跨越几代人和大洲的复杂历史。

这本开创性的书揭示了非洲蜡染纺织品的复杂起源。在精美插图的各章中，安妮•格罗斯菲利将涉及蜡或靛蓝的印刷和染色过程追溯到其西印度的根源。她还探讨了批量生产和手工采购的面料的差异，跟踪了纺织品从制造中心到非洲乃至世界各地的市场和城市的去处。在介绍从乡村小贩到引领潮流的时尚达人等形形色色的个人时，格罗斯菲利提供了她自己的研究成果。这项令人大开眼界的研究介绍了各种各样的非洲面料风格和用途，并探索了非洲大陆与殖民主义之间以及现代技术与旧世界实践之间的复杂联系。

As colorful and varied as the fabric it explores, this insightful book looks at traditional African textiles and reveals a complicated history that spans generations and continents.

This groundbreaking book reveals the complex origins of African wax print fabrics. In beautifully illustrated chapters, Anne Grosfilley traces the process of printing and dying the fabric, involving wax or indigo, to its West Indian roots. She also explores the differences of mass-produced and artisanally sourced fabrics, tracking where textiles go from the manufacturing centers to markets and cities throughout Africa and the world. Grosfilley offers the fruits of her own passionate research as she profiles a variety of individuals from rural venders to trendsetting fashionistas. This eye-opening study celebrates the enormous variety of African fabric styles and uses, and explores the complex interconnections between the continent and colonialism and between modern technology and Old World practices.