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Introduction: The cultural context of textiles; What is a textile?; Textile design; The economic status of weavers --The raw materials: wool; silk; cotton; bast; raphia; indigo and other dyes; barkcloth and other felted fabrics -- The loom: methods of applying warp tension; shedding devices; the structural basis of textile design -- The single-heddle loom: the Berber loom; the Nigerian vertical loom; single-heddle looms with discrete warp lengths -- The double-heddle loom in West Africa; Mende, Bambara, Fulani, Djerma, Hausa, Yoruba, Ashanti, Ewe, Manjako-Pepel, variations of loom structure -- Weaving in Madagascar: Malagasy loom types; Malagasy cloth -- Pattern-dyeing: Yoruba adire cloth; Bambara mud cloth -- Drawn, painted, printed and stenciled patterns -- Appliqué and related techniques: quilting; patchwork -- Embroidery: embroidery in West Africa; Bakuba embroidery.