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From Dusty Pages to Digital Age: Celebrating Loom's Library Anniversary!

Mark your calendars for this exciting event.

Happy Africa Day to all Africans!

Museum Rietberg Zürich

See you there!

Museum Rietberg Zürich
Imagery between Cult and Prohibition in Islam and Christianity. Exhibitions currently underway up to the 22nd of May 2022. Don't miss out.

Let us recycle and reduce pollution

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VC5KYX74AP4&feature=youtu.be

Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World Unreported World is in Ghana which is suffering an environmental disaster caused by the fast fashion items we give away. Reporter Ashionye Ogene travels to t...

28-30 APRIL 2022


Ntando XV Artisan
Afrikanswiss
Mantsho by Palesa Mokubung

These and much more are what you can expect, see you there!

Digital preservation is a Loom Cluster Library effort of making sure that digital legacy is accessible today and tomorrow for every new generation to come. The library platform helps foster public understanding of African textiles and fashion studies and its social, cultural, and economic importance.

Join us at one of our Introduction sessions and learn more about our digital services.

Library Introduction session:
05 Nov. 2021 at 12 AM (CAT)
03 Dec. 2021 at 12 AM (CAT)

Zoom link access: https://tinyurl.com/LCLibraryIntroduction

Discover and explore treasures from our own collections and beyond at library.loomcluster.org

Happy Day! 4th November 2021

Library — Loom Cluster The Loom Cluster Library is a home for critical thinking, progressive education, and a conscientious community. Loom Cluster is committed to pushing positive change and creating a leading hub for everyone interested in African Textiles, Dress and Ornament.

It is 2021! This year’s theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”

What is Open Access?
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"A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access:

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.
OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered. "
by Peter Suber
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Isishweshwe: Iziko’s Social History Textile Collection

Fabric, Fashion and Identity - The story of IsiShweshwe - Iziko Museums of South Africa - Google Arts & Culture The cloth known as amajamane, amajerimane or isishweshwe has its origins in the East, and was originally made from cotton and blue dye from the indigo plan...

🎥 Welcome to our YouTube channel, where you will find videos and playlists!

Enjoy some visuals content: Exhibitions, Documentaries, Talks, Fashion films, Music videos, etc.

Welcome to Loom Cluster Loom Cluster is a platform that documents and disseminates narratives regarding textiles, dress, and adornment with a focus on Africa and its global Diaspora...

🚦"The Library ls Your Oyster!"

Link: http://library.loomcluster.org/

🧭Join us, every first Friday of the month for a Live chat on how to navigate the digital library with Q&A.

☑️12 pm Central Africa Time (CAT)
☑️Online via Zoom https://tinyurl.com/LCLibraryIntroduction
☑️Everyone is welcomed
☑️Free

It's a Lunch Date! 😉

📜We virtually welcome you all!

Visit website: http://library.loomcluster.org

🚀We are Live! Welcome to the Loom Cluster Library.

Online catalogue: http://library.loomcluster.org
Library Information: https://www.loomcluster.org/library

"We lead the effort to be a Memory keeper and a Knowledge provider with a focus on African textiles and dress studies."
— Loom Cluster

⏱Unveiling tomorrow!!! That’s right, the final countdown has begun!

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The moment we've been waiting for is almost here. Join us on June 1st, 2021 as we officially launch the Loom Cluster Library.

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📜Today is World Creativity and Innovation Day. In order to support your creative and innovative endeavors, a comprehensive and wide-range of resources will soon be available through our Library platform.

A cultural jolly when Dress and Music Intertwine!

🎵Lágbájá - Skentele Skontolo ft. Ego Ihenacho
Music video: https://youtu.be/Di0UoNWEdnQ

Lagbaja (Skentele Skontolo) This video shortlist numbers of head-tie used in Yoruba culture. Lagbaja once again show-case some African rhythm.

📽Fashion in Context. Cultural References. Fashion Journalism.

Who Is PRIYA AHLUWALIA? | The Woman Bringing A Cultural Explosion To Fashion In today's video, I talk about the work of London based Indian-Nigerian fashion designer Priya Ahluwalia. I talk about everything from her cultural reference...

📜 Here at Loom Cluster, we’ve been harvesting and building a nest. Coming soon is the Loom Cluster Library - your soon to be reference spot.

Watch this space!

📽Film: Coming 2 America premiers March 5th, 2021 on Amazon Prime featuring MaXhosa Africa designs. Learn more about the Brand story and Career possibilities in the Creative Industries.

Movie trailer: https://bit.ly/308cg7b

The MaXhosa Dynasty Story - Documentary Careers Magazine present an all access pass to the story behind MaXhosa Africa, its roots as a family business and what the future holds.

Today Live on Zoom at 5:30pm EST!

The Conception of TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair | Kent State University The Conception of TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM | 2021-02-25 22:30:00 to 2021-02-25 23:30:00 | Join Drs. Tameka Ellington and Joseph Underwood as they discuss their research and collaboration that led to the development of both the TEXTURES exhibition that....

Exhibition by the South African artist Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela on view till 02 May 2021 at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA).

*Blog post alert!*
Africa has textile stories to unfold and blazing a trail toward an open book is a continuum care of tradition and possibilities!

Read: https://bit.ly/2JLU2Ue

Blazing A Trail Blog — Loom Cluster Loom Cluster 7 December 2020 Blog Melodic Strands: Blazing A Trail Loom Cluster 7 December 2020 Blog The capacity of Africans more than a millennium ago to craft enduring beauty and meaning in handmade objects that they produced and purchased for shaping their identities, protecting their privacy, a...

“Namibia 1953–54”, is an online platform developed to raise awareness of The Dammann collection. The collection consists of images and audio documents. The archive is made visible to the public. Namibian public can access, share, correct and maybe hear recordings or see images of their family members and friends.

The full collection is housed at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) and is accessible through the online platform. Copies of audio recordings are stored at the National Archives of Namibia in Windhoek.

Learn more: https://namibia1953.com/
National Archives of Namibia, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Museums Association of Namibia

1953-1954 Between 1953-1954, over 750 sound and other documents were recorded with over 200 people from across Namibia. This platform hopes to make this vast material more accessible to a broader Namibian public and families in particular.“Namibia 1953-54” provides a list of names of those individuals who...