What Dress Styles can you make with Dashiki?


This lovely black, red and green high neck, long sleeve dashiki dress.
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6 Facts to Have In Mind Before Going Natural… Ok so a number of women around you are ditching relaxers and grooming their natural hair…Then you wonder if you should take the plunge but don’t really know what to expect. Natural black hair is far from relaxed hair when it comes to texture and handling…

1. Always wash separately from other clothes or colours. 2. Hand-wash in cold or lukewarm water with a mild detergent. If you must use a washing machine just use the gentle cycle, avoid spinning. 3. Do not tumble dry, instead hang to dry. 4. Iron on the wrong side of the fabric ( you retain…

What is Lobola? ‘Lobola’ is an African practice that involves the groom’s family giving a gift, of either cash or heads of cattle, to the parents of the bride for customary marriage. What is the purpose of paying Lobola? The Traditional African process of marriage begins with lobola, which is also known as…

Coral beads are actually the red exoskeleton of the Precious Coral or Red Coral Species called Corallium Rubrum. The Corallium Rubrum a.k.a Red Coral lives mainly in the Mediterranean sea, but may also be found in the Sea of Japan, Canary Isles and Bay of Biscay. The Red Coral contains calcium carbonate, magnesium and organic…

A Kikoi or Kikoy is a rectangular woven cloth, popular in East Africa, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, used as a sarong (wrapper) or shawl. The word Kikoi in Kiswahili simply means ” something to wrap around you”. This 100% cotton cloth which was introduced by the Arabian businessmen who came to East Africa, has…
Shweshwe is the name of the indigo cloth worn by most of Southern Africa. This indigo fabric, which was dyed by the indigofera plant, originated from India and Holland. Four companies produce different Colours of the shweshwe fabric: Indigo – Da Gama Textiles Blue – Three Leopards (Tree cats) Chocolate brown and red – Tootal(Toto)…