Ballie, Jennifer, e-Co-Textile Design: How can textile design and making, combined with social media tools, achieve a more sustainable fast fashion future? PhD thesis, ual, 2014
DiSalvo, Carl, Design and the Construction of Publics, Design Issues, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter, 2009), pp. 48-63
Chambers, Robert, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last first, ITDG Publishing, 1997
Eicher B. Joanne and Doran H.Ross, Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol 1, Berg Publishers, 2011
Eicher, Joanne B., Sandra Lee Evenson, Hazel A. Lutz, The Visible Self, Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture and Society(third edition), Fairchild Books, 2008
Fletcher, Kate, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, Design Journeys, Earthscan, 2008
Gerdes, Paulus, Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa, Africa World Press, 1998
Giaccardi, Elisa, ed. Heritage and Social Media, Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture, Oxon: Routledge, 2012
Gray, Carole and Julian Malins, Visualizing Research, A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design, Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 2004
Handler Miller, Carolyn, Digital Storytelling, A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, Focal Press, 2014
Hemmings, Jessica, ed., The Textile Reader, Berg, 2012 (Essay: Mitchell, Victoria, Textiles, Text and Techne)
Hemmings, Jessica (ed.), Cultural Threads, Transnational Textiles Today, London/New York, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015
Hendrickson, Hildi, Clothing and Difference, Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa, London: Duke University Press, 1996
Howard, E.K., G. D. Sarpong and A. M. Amankwah, Symbolic Significance Of African Prints: A Dying Phenomenon In Contemporary Print Designs In Ghana, International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol1, Issue 11 (December 2012), p.610-624, accessed May 2016, url: http://ir.knust.edu.gh/bitstream/123456789/7331/1/Howard2.pdf
Howes, David, ed., Cross-Cultural Consumption, Global Markets, Local Realities, Routledge, 1996
Israel, Paulo, Lingundumbwe: Feminist Masquerades and Women’s Liberation, Nangade, Mueda, Muidumbe, 1950s-2005, History Department, University of the Western Cape, November 2013, Academic Journal, Kronos: Southern African Histories;Nov2013, Vol. 39, p204, http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/kronos/v39n1/10.pdf, accessed on July 6, 2016
Jeffrey, James, Digital Interactions in Developing Countries, An economic perspective, Oxon: Routledge, 2013
Kalay, Yehuda, Thomas Kvan, Janice Affleck, eds.: New Heritage – New Media and Cultural Heritage, Oxon: Routledge, 2008
Kuusk, Kristi, Crafting Sustainable Smart Textile Services, PhD Thesis Eindhoven University of Technology, 2016
Ladd, Katherine, Hand Made with Love, Africa’s Artisans and the Quest for Authenticity, UKArtifact, 2015
Macueve Gertrudes, Judite Mandlate, Lucia Ginger, Polly Gaster and Esselina Macome, Women’s use of information and communication technology in Mozambique: a tool for empowerment? in African Women and ICTs, Investigationg Technology, Gender and Empowerment, edited by Buskens, Ineke and Anne Webb, Pages 21-32, Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2009
Manzini, Ezio, Design, When Everybody Designs, An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Page, Ruth E., Stories and Social Media – Identities and Interaction, Routledge, 2012
Perani, Judith and Norma H. Wolff, Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa, New York: Berg, 1999
Presthold, Jeremy, Domesticating the World, African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization, University of California Press, 2008
Rabine, Leslie W., The Global Circulation of African Fashion, New York: Berg, 2002
Renne, Elisha P., Cloth that does not die, The Meaning of Cloth in Bùnú Social Life, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995
Riello, Giorgio and Prasannan Parthasarathi, eds., The Spinning World, A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Schoenhoff, Doris M., The Barefoot Expert: The interface of computerized knowledge systems and indigenous knowledge systems, Greenwood Press, 1993
Schumacher, E.F., Small is Beautiful, a study of economics as if people mattered, Blond&Briggs Ltd, 1973
Sen, Amartya, Development as Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
Servaes, Jan, ed., Communication for Development and Social Change, Paris: UNESCO, 2008
Smith, Ken, Sandra Moriarty, Gretchen Barbarts, Keith Kenney and Lawrence Erlbaum, Handbook of Visual Communication – Theory, Methods and Media, Associates Publication, 2005
Soini, Katriina and Joost Dessein, Culture-Sustainability Relation: Towards a Conceptual Framework, MDPI, Sustainability, Center for Environment, University of Helsinki, Finland, Published: 11 February 2016
Spring, Chris, African Textiles Today, London: The British Museum Press, 2012
Stuedahl Dagny and Christina Mörtberg, Heritage knowledge, social media and the sustainability of the intangible in Heritage and Social Media, Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture, edited by Elisa Giaccardi, pages 107-125, Oxon: Routledge, 2012
Sylvanus, Nina, Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo in African Dress, Fashion, Agency, Performance, edited by Transberg Hansen, Karen and D. Soyini Madison, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
Thorpe, Ann, The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, Charting the Conceptual Landscape through Economy, Ecology, and Culture, Washington DC, Island Press, 2007
Transberg Hansen, Karen and D. Soyini Madison (eds.), African Dress, Fashion, Agency, Performance, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
Wenger, Etienne, Communities of Practice – Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Websites:
Victoria Miro, Grayson Perry, The Walthamstow Tapestry, 2009, http://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/400/, accessed on May 25, 2016
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), artists official site, 2016, http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/home/, accessed on May 25, 2016
Facebook group, the african sewing club, https://www.facebook.com/africansewingclub/?fref=ts, accessed on June 2, 2016
Facebook group, Humans of Mozambique, https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=humans%20of%20mozambique, accessed on June 2, 2016
Carrilho, Raquel, articla, Sol, 24 de dezembro 2015, http://sol.sapo.pt/artigo/491409/mocambique-pode-a-moda-ajudar-a-reconstruir-um-pais-, accessed on June 24, 2016
Video of women’s masquerade, https://vimeo.com/142976841, accessed on July 21, 2016
Uqalo Research, May 2015, The African Print Fabric Market, Uqalo Advisory (Pty) Ltd, http://www.uqalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/research.pdf, accessed on June 20, 2016
GSMA Intelligence report, The Mobile Economy, Sub-Saharan Africa 2014, www.gsma.com, http://www.gsmamobileeconomyafrica.com/GSMA_ME_SubSaharanAfrica_Web_Singles.pdf, accessed in 2015 and on July 22, 2016
CIAD, Costume Institute of the African Diaspora, http://ciad.org.uk/2015/06/28/11326/, accessed on June 15, 2016
Collections & Exhibitions:
UoB African Textile Collection, British Museum Collection, V&A
‘Fashion Cities Africa’ exhibition (Brighton Museum, Brighton, April 2016 – January 2017),
‘African Social Fabric’ exhibition (William Morris Gallery, London, May 2016)
Exhibition catalogue of ‘Yoruba Printed Cottons and the European Collection, 1983, The Gallery Brighton Polytechnic, Grand Parade, Brighton – p.10
Field research data:
Field research was undertaken in January and February 2016, north of the village of Marracuene, Maputo Province, Mozambique, South East Africa.
Primary research data has also been collected during social media experiments between March and May 2016.
Primary research data has not been published on this site to protect the identity of all research participants.
Cultural Fabric Africa:
Website author: Marion Herlet
Photography (unless labelled otherwise): Marta Castiglioni and Marion Herlet
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Chambers, Robert, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last first, ITDG Publishing, 1997
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Eicher B. Joanne and Doran H.Ross, Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol 1, Berg Publishers, 2011
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Fletcher, Kate, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, Design Journeys, Earthscan, 2008
Gerdes, Paulus, Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa, Africa World Press, 1998
Giaccardi, Elisa, ed. Heritage and Social Media, Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture, Oxon: Routledge, 2012
Gray, Carole and Julian Malins, Visualizing Research, A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design, Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 2004
Handler Miller, Carolyn, Digital Storytelling, A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, Focal Press, 2014
Hemmings, Jessica, ed., The Textile Reader, Berg, 2012 (Essay: Mitchell, Victoria, Textiles, Text and Techne)
Hemmings, Jessica (ed.), Cultural Threads, Transnational Textiles Today, London/New York, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015
Hendrickson, Hildi, Clothing and Difference, Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa, London: Duke University Press, 1996
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Jeffrey, James, Digital Interactions in Developing Countries, An economic perspective, Oxon: Routledge, 2013
Kalay, Yehuda, Thomas Kvan, Janice Affleck, eds.: New Heritage – New Media and Cultural Heritage, Oxon: Routledge, 2008
Kuusk, Kristi, Crafting Sustainable Smart Textile Services, PhD Thesis Eindhoven University of Technology, 2016
Ladd, Katherine, Hand Made with Love, Africa’s Artisans and the Quest for Authenticity, UKArtifact, 2015
Macueve Gertrudes, Judite Mandlate, Lucia Ginger, Polly Gaster and Esselina Macome, Women’s use of information and communication technology in Mozambique: a tool for empowerment? in African Women and ICTs, Investigationg Technology, Gender and Empowerment, edited by Buskens, Ineke and Anne Webb, Pages 21-32, Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2009
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Presthold, Jeremy, Domesticating the World, African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization, University of California Press, 2008
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Renne, Elisha P., Cloth that does not die, The Meaning of Cloth in Bùnú Social Life, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995
Riello, Giorgio and Prasannan Parthasarathi, eds., The Spinning World, A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Schoenhoff, Doris M., The Barefoot Expert: The interface of computerized knowledge systems and indigenous knowledge systems, Greenwood Press, 1993
Schumacher, E.F., Small is Beautiful, a study of economics as if people mattered, Blond&Briggs Ltd, 1973
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Spring, Chris, African Textiles Today, London: The British Museum Press, 2012
Stuedahl Dagny and Christina Mörtberg, Heritage knowledge, social media and the sustainability of the intangible in Heritage and Social Media, Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture, edited by Elisa Giaccardi, pages 107-125, Oxon: Routledge, 2012
Sylvanus, Nina, Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo in African Dress, Fashion, Agency, Performance, edited by Transberg Hansen, Karen and D. Soyini Madison, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
Thorpe, Ann, The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, Charting the Conceptual Landscape through Economy, Ecology, and Culture, Washington DC, Island Press, 2007
Transberg Hansen, Karen and D. Soyini Madison (eds.), African Dress, Fashion, Agency, Performance, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
Wenger, Etienne, Communities of Practice – Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Websites:
Victoria Miro, Grayson Perry, The Walthamstow Tapestry, 2009, http://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/400/, accessed on May 25, 2016
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), artists official site, 2016, http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/home/, accessed on May 25, 2016
Facebook group, the african sewing club, https://www.facebook.com/africansewingclub/?fref=ts, accessed on June 2, 2016
Facebook group, Humans of Mozambique, https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=humans%20of%20mozambique, accessed on June 2, 2016
Carrilho, Raquel, articla, Sol, 24 de dezembro 2015, http://sol.sapo.pt/artigo/491409/mocambique-pode-a-moda-ajudar-a-reconstruir-um-pais-, accessed on June 24, 2016
Video of women’s masquerade, https://vimeo.com/142976841, accessed on July 21, 2016
Uqalo Research, May 2015, The African Print Fabric Market, Uqalo Advisory (Pty) Ltd, http://www.uqalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/research.pdf, accessed on June 20, 2016
GSMA Intelligence report, The Mobile Economy, Sub-Saharan Africa 2014, www.gsma.com, http://www.gsmamobileeconomyafrica.com/GSMA_ME_SubSaharanAfrica_Web_Singles.pdf, accessed in 2015 and on July 22, 2016
CIAD, Costume Institute of the African Diaspora, http://ciad.org.uk/2015/06/28/11326/, accessed on June 15, 2016
Collections & Exhibitions:
UoB African Textile Collection, British Museum Collection, V&A
‘Fashion Cities Africa’ exhibition (Brighton Museum, Brighton, April 2016 – January 2017),
‘African Social Fabric’ exhibition (William Morris Gallery, London, May 2016)
Exhibition catalogue of ‘Yoruba Printed Cottons and the European Collection, 1983, The Gallery Brighton Polytechnic, Grand Parade, Brighton – p.10
Field research data:
Field research was undertaken in January and February 2016, north of the village of Marracuene, Maputo Province, Mozambique, South East Africa.
Primary research data has also been collected during social media experiments between March and May 2016.
Primary research data has not been published on this site to protect the identity of all research participants.
Cultural Fabric Africa:
Website author: Marion Herlet
Photography (unless labelled otherwise): Marta Castiglioni and Marion Herlet
Acknowledgements