Folake Adeyemi

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Textile historian & photographer, Abeokuta

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About Folake

Folake Adeyemi photographs cloth. Yorùbá Textiles took eight years, two hundred plates, and the patience of every dyer in Abeokuta.

She includes the dye recipes, which several colleagues told her not to.

Based in
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Writes in
English, Yorùbá

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Yorùbá Textiles

Two hundred plates of adire and aso-oke photographed at scale, with the dye recipes and the meanings the patterns carry.

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