Welcome to African Beads & Fabrics

Your reliable source of authentic artisan crafts and information on African beads and fabrics from Ghana and elsewhere on the continent.

You will get a chance to meet some of the producers who have dedicated their lives to bringing you beautifully crafted quality products.

Please visit our knowledge section where you will find information about kente, beads, batik fabric, adinkra symbols and other topics which we hope will be of interest to schools, colleges and individuals who want to learn more about African customs and culture.

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As well as selling a wide range of products at the shop on this website, we also have two Etsy stores based in Ghana.


Blog

8th September 2020

Caring for African (Ghanaian) Cotton Batik Fabric

Sometimes I get asked the care instructions for the batik fabrics I sell. Because they haven’t come from a big factory, there is soem uncertainty about how they will hold up when laundered. They makers don’t supply any but from using Ghanaian cotton batik […]